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   On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:21:41 -0800 (PST), omattos  wrote:   
    : > This kind of redundancy is always be more expensive in time and material   
    : > than reducing the error rate by merely operating components 'in spec'.   
    :   
    :  I was more thinking of redundancy like this for performance.  Say I   
    :  have a task that must be completed in 1 second, but takes 2 seconds on   
    :  the best currently available processor.  The task can't be   
    :  parallelized (ie. every part of the task depends on the previous).  By   
    :  using multiple processors running faster than designed to get the task   
    :  done I can get the job done in 1 second.  By having multiple   
    :  processors running the same job simultaneously, I can check which   
    :  result is correct (by a majority vote)   
    :   
    :  This uses the theory that as the clock speed of the part moves out of   
    :  it's designed working region the reliability goes down, and the   
    :  further out of the working region, the further it goes down.   
    :   
      
   Can you fillin a blank please? What's the application?   
      
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