Re: Software based ECC ?

From: Folkert van Heusden
Date: Sun Aug 12 2007 - 12:51:53 EST


> > http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/softecc:ddopson-meng/softecc_ddopson-meng.pdf
> > "SoftECC : A System for Software Memory Integrity Checking"
>
> Personally, I'd recommend just shelling out the bucks for hardware ECC if
> the reliability matters.

a question and an idea: Q: is ecc guaranteed to detect all bitflips?

Idea: what about a multicore system (3 or more) that runs the same
processes on 2 cores and a third core verifying that they both do the
same? As I think it is not only ram that can become faulty.



Folkert van Heusden

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