[AusNOG] Major Optus Fibre cut Sydney CBD

[Matt Moor]

There was a good talk about this at Linux.Conf.Au this year by one of 
the IBMers testing the resistance of the Power6 to cosmic rays and the like.

http://linux.conf.au/programme/schedule/view_talk/166?day=friday

Video doesn't seem to be available yet, but they were recording, so it 
should make it online at some point.

One of the points he made was that there was effectively no way to 
shield against it (without loads of concrete/lead/steel), so you just 
had to be sure you included enough error checking in your chip to 
account for transients.

Cheers,

Matt

Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/ts/fn/200/fn25994.html
> 
> Everyone needs lead shielding.
> 
> MMC
> 
> On 02/02/2009, at 10:42 PM, McDonald Richards wrote:
> 
>> Will that also stop those pesky cosmic rays from causing RAM bit flips?
>> Hello tier 5 data centres :)
>>
>>
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