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- From: grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu (Johannes Grosen)
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- Subject: Re: FPU errors on 5000/240
- Message-ID: <BxKr3w.G70@ns1.nodak.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 23:11:56 GMT
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- In article <BxKIq9.7Es@news.iastate.edu> njohnson@sysad.cnde.iastate.edu (Neil Johnson) writes:
- >
- >I've run both Arthur Smith's and Jay Ponder's programs on our 28 DECStation
- >240's. Smith's program reported only one node with problems, while Ponder's
- >indentfied them all as being bad.
-
- Same results here.
-
- >We are currently testing our large applications on an older 200 to see if
- >the problem has been effecting results.
-
- I tried running 'ponder' on our DECstation 5000/133's (16MB) and got 'out
- of core' messages so we don't have anything to compare to.
-
- >Our DEC service representative told us that they are aware of the problem
- >and are waiting for a decision from above on how to proceed. Should know
- >more soon.
-
- Same for us although our correspondence seems to indicate that the decision
- to replace the CPU's has been made. They just don't know when....
-
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- Johannes Grosen
- ISC System Administrator
- grosen@isc.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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