<![endif] IEEE.org | IEEE Xplore Digital Library | IEEE Standards | IEEE Spectrum | More Sites Follow on: Advertisement begin static module gpt-body-ad-module-728-90 end static module Engineering Topics Special Reports Blogs Multimedia The Magazine Professional Resources Search /.primary Feature Computing Hardware By Al Geist Posted 23 Feb 2016 | 16:00 GMT Go to www.addthis.com/dashboard to customize your tools Illustration: Shaw Nielsen As a child, were you ever afraid that a monster lurking in your bedroom would leap out of the dark and get you? My job at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is to worry about a similar monster, hiding in the steel cabinets of the supercomputers and threatening to crash the largest computing machines on the planet. The monster is something supercomputer specialists call resilience—or rat...