[Beowulf] X5500 - ECC Registered or Unbuffered?
Orion Poplawski
orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed Apr 1 15:47:20 PDT 2009
Jan Heichler wrote:
>
> Don't forget DDR3-ECC memory which must be registered.
http://www.siliconmechanics.com/i22789/2U-4-node-server.php shows
options for "ECC Unbuffered" or "ECC Registered". No idea what the
practical difference would be. Anyone?
>
> To my knowledge Intel is the only plattform using that now. It is more
> expensive than DDR2-800 (for Opterons)... hopefully that will change
> (quickly).
But not all that much it seems?
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