Intel's Nehalem EX To Gain Error Correction

angry tapir writes "Intel's eight-core Nehalem EX server processor will include a technology derived from its high-end Itanium chips that helps to reduce data corruption and ensure reliable server performance. The processor will include an error correction feature called MCA Recovery, which will detect and fix errors that could otherwise cause systems to crash — it will be able to detect system errors originating in the CPU or system memory and work with the operating system to correct them." Update: 05/27 19:11 GMT by T : Dave Altavilla suggests also Hot Hardware's coverage of the new chip, which includes quite a bit more information.

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Re:Error

[MrNaz]

I like this trend for computer systems to protect us from our own stupidity. Here's another one:
http://static.mrnaz.com/ms_security_works.jpg

Convergent Sequence

[PingPongBoy]

You can see it now. Once upon a time, a computer intelligence was given the power to control its destiny. This intelligence was deemed so substantial that it was the best commander of the greatest weapons. You know this intelligence as Skynet, which launched nuclear missiles in order to a threat to itself, a sort of error detection and correction, if you will, with the utmost power that man can endow to a machine. What you don't know was the actual error that was detected, an error with the code PEBKAC. PEBKAC? PEBKAC. Only an intelligent computer can detect PEBKAC. And now you know the rest of the story.