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Tagged: hardware, computer, desktops, failure, semiconductors, processors, checkpoint, components, desktop computer, multiprocessor, robin harris, lanl

Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National Continue Reading »


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