[Beowulf] [tt] One million ARM chips challenge Intel bumblebee

Douglas Eadline deadline at eadline.org
Fri Jul 8 20:42:28 PDT 2011


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>
> Did you read the paper that someone else posted a link to? I just read
> the first half of it. A good part of this research is focused on
> fault-tolerance/resiliency of computer systems. They're not just
> interested in creating a computer to mimic the brain, they want to learn
> how to mimic the brain's fault-tolerance in computers.
>
> To paraphrase the paper, we lose a neuron a second in our brains for our
> entire lives, but we never notice any problems from that.

I know some people from the sixties that may beg to differ ;-)

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Doug


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