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[Beowulf] Acceptable rad limits for cluster rooms?

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Greg Lindahl greg.lindahl at qlogic.com
Sun Jun 18 19:58:23 PDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:21:56PM -0600, Brian Oborn wrote:

> The cluster for our Physics department is next to a room that, at the 
> time of installation, was an empty accelerator hall.

I'd test it. If you can find the count of single-bit upsets, even one
machine for a week or two will give you plenty of confidence in
the number of 2-bit errors for a cluster.

-- greg



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