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They don't need to be space grade, consumer hardware will do just fine.

For AI a random bit flip doesn't matter much.

>>pantal+(OP)
Random bit flips might even improve output.

>>pantal+(OP)
Only if that bitflip happens somewhere in your actual data, vs. some GPU pipeline register that then locks up the entire system until a power cycle. Or causes a wrong address to be fetched. Or causes other nasty silent errors. Or...

Try doing fault injection on a chip some time. You'll see it's significantly easier to cause a crash / reset / hang than to just flip data bits.

'rad-triggered bit flips don't matter with AI' is a lie spoken by people who have obviously never done any digital design in their life.

>>pantal+(OP)
As long as they stay below Van Allen belts and deal with weaker magnetic shielding in sun synchronous orbit (high latitudes).

I would say they probably something a little beefier than consumer hardware and just deal with lots of failures and bit flips.

But cooling is a bigger issue probably?

>>ohyout+a2
Single upset events in a modern GPU are not bitflips. They destroy the surrounding circuitry and usually disable the whole unit.

>>adastr+96
If that happens you disable that CUDA core. If you GPU is too damaged, you deorbit the satellite.

>>pantal+L8
Yeas, and this will happen within weeks of launch with the orbits under consideration.