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What is Burn-in test?

Definition 8.7 Networks, Hardware and Trading Infrastructure · Chapter 8 — Servers

A burn-in test runs a new or reconfigured server at full load, often for days, with stress workloads that exercise the processor, memory and devices, and checks for errors, throttling and instability before the server is trusted with trading.

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