Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:51:31 +0200 | From | Folkert van Heusden <> | Subject | Re: Software based ECC ? |
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> > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/softecc:ddopson-meng/softecc_ddopson-meng.pdf > > "SoftECC : A System for Software Memory Integrity Checking" > > Personally, I'd recommend just shelling out the bucks for hardware ECC if > the reliability matters.
a question and an idea: Q: is ecc guaranteed to detect all bitflips?
Idea: what about a multicore system (3 or more) that runs the same processes on 2 cores and a third core verifying that they both do the same? As I think it is not only ram that can become faulty.
Folkert van Heusden
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