ABSTRACT
The subject has become relevant for two reasons. Firstly, the miniaturization of computer technology leads to increasing sensitivity of hardware to exterior influences. Secondly, the weakening of the magnetic field of the earth is accompanied with an increasing number of charged cosmic particles arriving at the earth’s surface. As a result, occurrence rate of transient failures can be greater than the failure rate of hardware failures by three or more orders of magnitude Shubinski (2012).
