From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] pineview atom
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:04:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e61002181204w3b3c5aacuc4225d2963fb1b88@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df11002181031g5ce06000vab68f13461880eef@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:31 AM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:26 AM, matt <maht-9fans@maht0x0r.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> it supports 4gb of memory.
> >
> > of non-ECC memory, so nice terminal, bad server
> >
> >
> > "the probability of having at least one bit error in 4 gigabyes of memory
> at
> > sea level on planet Earth in 72 hours is over 95%."
>
>
> humorous and true story. The Big Mac system at Virginia Tech could
> tell you if it was day or night. There was a dramatic increase in
> memory error rates during the day. I saw a very nice graph showing the
> effect.
>
> Seems the earth is a pretty good shield for nasty high energy
> particles from our local light source :-)
>
> So just run it as a server at night and you may be fine!
>
> ron
>
I had a little interaction with that setup myself. Didn't they move to
Xserves ultimately so they could have ECC RAM? I think it was all PowerMac
G5s to start.
I know of a larger cluster of Xserves too that was in Huntsville AL that I
physically visited and worked with that was all Xserves (2500 of them I
believe at the time).
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-18 16:56 erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 18:26 ` matt
2010-02-18 18:31 ` ron minnich
2010-02-18 18:43 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-02-18 20:04 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2010-02-18 18:39 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 20:46 ` ron minnich
2010-02-18 21:03 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 21:14 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-18 22:38 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-18 23:08 ` roger peppe
2010-02-18 23:12 ` Adrian Tritschler
2010-02-18 23:27 ` ron minnich
2010-02-19 21:59 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-20 22:17 ` erik quanstrom
2010-02-21 19:46 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-03-05 10:01 ` hugh
2010-03-05 17:32 ` Dave Eckhardt
2010-02-18 18:43 ` Corey Thomasson
2010-03-08 17:57 ` Albert Skye
2010-03-08 19:06 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-08 19:47 ` Jonas Amoson
2010-03-08 20:11 ` erik quanstrom
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