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Nobody wants to be that guy who has to rewrite the nuclear power plant software. I do wonder what they use. I assume off-site computers aren't really an option
by PeCaN 10y ago
Nobody wants to be that guy who has to rewrite the nuclear power plant software.
I do wonder what they use. I assume off-site computers aren't really an option for networking reasons, so Stratus, NonStop, z mainframes, etc probably. I wonder if they have a backup mainframe, or if the redundancy in one of those things is enough.
- intrasight 10y ago>Nobody wants to be that guy who has to rewrite the nuclear power plant software. Nobody is allowed to rewrite the nuclear power plan software. My first job was at Westinghouse Nuclear Division. Those Fortran libraries were off-limits in terms of changes.
- erelde 10y agoIs there a good move here? Update or not?
- StreamBright 10y agoNo surprise, same story in energy balance circle management to calculate the optimal schedule.
- dfc 10y ago> energy balance circle management WTF? What is energy balance circle management?
- StreamBright 10y agoWhen you are creating a schedule for all the power plants taking into consideration predictions for home and industrial users and trading as well. There can be domestic and foreign trading involved as well. Not sure how it is called in English.
- pjmlp 10y agoFor example systems like RC 4000. http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/1967b.pdf http://brinch-hansen.net/papers/1967b.pdf
- RugnirViking 10y agoI used to work at a computer museum and we had an old computer from the 60s that was used in a plant and they came back and took it because they were upgrading their main computer and they wanted to keep redundancy I.E a backup for their backup. In short, yes. They always have two machines running ready to swap in. I have heard some also run multiple live mainframes to check that the results agree, and discard and restart calculations if they don't.