On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, James Sutherland wrote:
> I can't see the software CPU on/off switch as a major selling point,
> somehow. As an HA facility, though, being able (ultimately) to hot-swap
> CPUs and fans would be quite useful.
Also thinking of fault tolerance, there are applications, for which the
calculations need to be absolutelly correct, so you might want to run 3
processes doing the same calculatins, on 3 processors, and have voting
about the result. If they do not agree all, you turn off the obviously
failed part.
-- SaPE
Peter, Sasi <sape@sch.hu>
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