> -Original Message-
> From: David Mathog [mailto:mat...@caltech.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:38 AM
> To: Lux, Jim (337C); beowulf@beowulf.org
> Subject: RE: [Beowulf] Curious about ECC vs non-ECC in practice
>
> Jim Lux posted:
>
> > "The Therac-25 Accidents" (Postscript ) or (P
Jim Lux posted:
> "The Therac-25 Accidents" (Postscript ) or (PDF). This paper is an
updated version of the original IEEE Computer (July 1993) article. It
also appears in the appendix of my book.
Well that was really horrible.
Are car computers ECC? When all they did was engine management a me
Another message from Mikhail Kuzminsky, who for some reason or other
cannot currently post directly to the list:
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1st of all, I should mention that the effect is observed only for
Opteron 2350/OpenSuSE 10.3.
Execution of the same job w/the same binaries on Nehalem E5520/OpenSuSe
11.
This *is* a big problem.
I suggest reading some of what Nancy Leveson has written.
http://sunnyday.mit.edu/
"Professor Leveson started a new area of research, software safety, which is
concerned with the problems of building software for real-time systems where
failures can result in loss of li
On 05/24/2011 11:41 AM, David Mathog wrote:
> Joe Landman wrote:
>
>> I am wondering about this for larger systems.
>
> Your post makes me wonder about ECC in much smaller systems, like
> dedicated single computers controlling machinery or medical devices.
> Some really nasty things could result fr
Joe Landman wrote:
> I am wondering about this for larger systems.
Your post makes me wonder about ECC in much smaller systems, like
dedicated single computers controlling machinery or medical devices.
Some really nasty things could result from "move cutting head in X
(int32 value) mm" after the
