Paul - Where has Ditzel been? "It's a red herring," Ditzel said of ECC. "It's not really necessary, and if you use it, it runs up the cost of your DRAM."
Jeez!!! It's no wonder he's not taken seriously by enterprise people. Ditzel must have missed the rather public humiliation of Sun, who even had ECC on main memory, but didn't have it on cache.
But then he goes on to further demonstrate his ignorance.
"Customers these days will generally have to re-boot a Windows operating system more often than they will ever need to be concerned with code error, Ditzel said.
"How often will DRAM fail? What are the FIT [failure in time] rates? Once every 14.9 years? And compare that to how often do you have to re-boot Windows?" Ditzel asked.
The problem is not REBOOTING, moronski Detzil, it's having undetected, corrupted data being handed around as good. And it is not just memory failures, as we have discussed many times here, it's bit shifts from cosmic rays and other stray effects which cause non-repeatable 1-time data changes.
With talent like that on the job, I don't think anyone has to worry about Transmeta becoming a force in the industry. |
