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Too bad this has to go right into production . . .

Big System

There should always be time to do some burn-in testing for a new production system. Even if it is only a couple of days. If you look any server life analysis with decent sample size you will find a good number of early failures followed by a couple of years with very low failure rates before the rate of age and wear related failures starts to rise again. The purpose of burn-in testing is to flush out those early failures so that they do not happen in production.

I'm sure you know that distributed computing apps are great for burn-in testing
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reply to KoshVorlon
mmmmmm - hardware porn...