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Re:Cosmic rays causing 30k network malfunctions in Japan eac... by raisedbyninjas on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:29PM (#26727214)
5950 failures per billion hours is approximately equal to 1 failure every 19 years.
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Re:Cosmic rays causing 30k network malfunctions in Japan eac... by nightcracker on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:33PM (#26727263)
And if you have a datacenter with 200 machines, that's roughly once a month.
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Re:Cosmic rays causing 30k network malfunctions in Japan eac... by lights0123 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @08:09PM (#26733314)
Each machine is going to have way more than 1 DRAM chip. A 128GB DDR4 stick is going to have ~20 chips on one side (not sure if they're double sided, just looking at product listing), and you're going to have terabytes of RAM per machine.
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