> Actually, even adding it in memory isn't that easy.  In the old days,
> a simple Hamming code was good enough because each bit in a word lived
> on a different chip.  Now memory chips are wider and so the code has
> to account for multi-bit errors (flipping of bits is not independent).

Indeed... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipkill

Dave Eckhardt

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