[Beowulf] Not quite Walmart, or, living without ECC?

[Justin Penney]

Michael Will wrote:
> We have found that linpack is by far the better memory tester than
> Memtest86+. Memtest does not find all the bad RAM that linpack triggers, 
> visible through the mcelog and through IPMI BMC logs. 

We have seen the same results. Linpack, the EDAC modules and watching the MCE log have really helped to diagnose memory failures that squeak through other tests.

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