Subject: Re: Very Very short completion time???
From: Martin 53N 1W
Date: 23/07/2004, 01:12
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Stratcat wrote:
[...]
The discussion was reasonably intelligent, many of the contributers where
pretty seasoned working pros, and other stability related topics such power
conditioning (and even memory bit cosmic ray errors!) were discussed.
[...]

Cosmic ray hits are real! Especially so with GBytes of memory. This is where ECC ram is a good if slightly more expensive idea.

Happy crunchin',
Martin

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