Re: ECC RAM really needed?

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> Wikipedia suggests a rule of thumb of one error per month per gigabyte, 
> though suggests error rates vary widely. They reference a paper that 
> should provide you with more background.

The paper I would recommend is

http://www.tezzaron.com/about/papers/soft_errors_1_1_secure.pdf

which is a summary of many other people's papers, and quite informative. 
I know I had no idea before reading it how much error rates go up with 
increasing altitute.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD