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When people really need something that's reliable, there's really no limit to how much effort can be put into producing a system with unfailing integrity and availability.

Take, for example, the lockstep facility on certain IBM processors:

https://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/29...

You can take two or more of them, run identical software on them, and compare their output on a cycle-by-cycle basis.

Now, the 750GX series may be a bit out of date in the modern era ... but good luck achieving that level of paranoid system integrity with just about any truly modern system.

One thing that I think they don't teach so well in most colleges is that a system's compute performance is not always the most important measurement of the system's capability.



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