abstract:Chipkill is IBM's trademark for a form of advanced error checking and correcting (ECC) computer memory technology that protects computer memory systems from any single memory chip failure as well as multi-bit errors from any portion of a single memory chip. One simple scheme to perform this function scatters the bits of a Hamming code ECC word across multiple memory chips, such that the failure of any one memory chip will affect only one ECC bit per word.
That's right, instead we're told by NVIDIA that the discrete GeForce 201M GPU runs continuously and Intel's integrated chip is never used -- a configuration which sounds like it'll absolutely kill the battery life on this machine.
Even contrarians who predicted that a 5, 000 Dow would kill the rally have put away their gloomy predictions and cheered as New York's blue-chip index soars toward 8, 000.