LEADER 02460oam 2200481zu 450 001 9910138786403321 005 20241212215758.0 010 $a9781424456918 010 $a1424456916 035 $a(CKB)2400000000001743 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000452567 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12168508 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000452567 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10472039 035 $a(PQKB)10848315 035 $a(NjHacI)992400000000001743 035 $a(EXLCZ)992400000000001743 100 $a20160829d2010 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$a2010 42nd Southeastern Symposium on System Theory 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cI E E E$d2010 215 $a1 online resource $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781424456901 311 08$a1424456908 330 $aSoft errors are caused by cosmic rays striking sensitive regions in electronic devices. Termed as single event upset (SEU), in the past this phenomenon mostly affected the high altitude systems or avionics. The small geometries of today's nanodevices and their use in high-density and high-complexity designs make electronic systems sensitive even to the ground-level radiation. Therefore, large computer systems like workstations or computer web servers have become major victims of single event upsets. Given that the idea of cloud computing is an unavoidable trend for the next generation internet, which might involve almost every company in the IT industry, the urgency and criticality of the reliability rise higher then ever. This paper illustrates how soft errors are a reliability concern for computer servers. The soft error reduction techniques that are significant for the IT industry are summarized and a possible soft error rate (SER) reduction method that considers the cosmic ray striking angle to redesign the circuit board layout is proposed. 606 $aElectronic data processing$vCongresses 606 $aSystem analysis$vCongresses 606 $aSystem theory$vCongresses 615 0$aElectronic data processing 615 0$aSystem analysis 615 0$aSystem theory 676 $a004 702 $aIEEE Staff 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aPROCEEDING 912 $a9910138786403321 996 $a2010 42nd Southeastern Symposium on System Theory$92546649 997 $aUNINA