[Beowulf] Curious about ECC vs non-ECC in practice

[David Mathog]

Joe Landman wrote:

> I am wondering about this for larger systems.

Your post makes me wonder about ECC in much smaller systems, like
dedicated single computers controlling machinery or medical devices. 
Some really nasty things could result from "move cutting head in X
(int32 value) mm" after the most significant bit in the int32 value has
flipped.

Regards,

David Mathog
mathog at caltech.edu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech