warranty term on most computers is no greater than a year, a 2 year design life might be reasonable.
hard to tell exactly what actuarial voodoo they do. I noticed AMD's cpus are waranteed for 3 years. whether they shave the tolerances by recognizing that lots of cpus are used for shorter lives, or at low duty cycle, we can only guess. I suspect companies are pretty conservative when evaluating this kind of risk, as loss of reputation
is considered a very high cost. (or rather the gaining of a bad rep.) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
