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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Wednesday 18 Nov 2009 15:49 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> GPU crashes can be caused for reasons that are not related to software
>> (I have one of the Nvidia cards from the notoriously defective line and I had
>> about 4 GPU crashes in a year and a half).
>
> Interesting in that regard:
>
> http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html
>
> DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study
>
> http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf
>
> Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population
>
> http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~vagrawal/TALKS/wang-singleeventupset.pdf
>
> Single Event Upset: An Embedded Tutorial
In my latest crash I got a blocky image. I wasn't doing anything unusual, so
it was very random.
- --
~~ Best of wishes
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He acts in any way he can to make it his. It can be an idea, market
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The only thing he understands is leverage."
--Philippe Kahn
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roy pts/0 :0 Tue Nov 17 02:37 still logged in
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