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4 unusual facts about ECC memory


ECC memory

This weakness is addressed by various technologies : Chipkill(IBM), Extended ECC(Sun Microsystems), Chipspare(Hewlett Packard) or SDDC=Single Device Data Correction(Intel).

The spacecraft Cassini–Huygens, launched in 1997, contains two identical flight recorders, each of which contains 2.5 gigabits of memory in the form of arrays of commercial DRAM chips.

Seymour Cray famously said "parity is for farmers" when asked why he left this out of the CDC 6600.

Work station

computer workstation, a high-performance desktop computer (e.g., one with error-correcting memory), as may be designed for scientific or engineering applications, or



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