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gautamcgoel on April 29, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cheyenne Super Computer Auction

The listing says that 1% of the nodes have RAM with memory errors. I assume this means hard errors since soft errors would just be corrected. Is this typical? Does RAM deteriorate over time?

dunham on April 29, 2024 [–]

Reading the whole paragraph, it sounds to me like they were accepting 1% errors rather than fixing the leaking cooling system.

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