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Intel had already price-segmented "inexpensive" supercomputers by restricting ECC to Xeon chips. The good news was that the low-end Xeons were only about $100
by hapless 11y ago
Intel had already price-segmented "inexpensive" supercomputers by restricting ECC to Xeon chips. The good news was that the low-end Xeons were only about $100 more than the Core i7 in the same socket.
We don't know whether Intel will restrict the low-end Xeon PCI-E lane counts for skylake, because the skylake Xeons aren't out yet.
I will be very alarmed if the next generation of 1-socket (cheap) Xeons feature the same sharply restricted I/O as the non-Xeon units.
- varelse 11y agothe !/$ on ECC has been craptastic for a rather long time. In fact, on GPUs, it's more likely your GPU is bad from the get-go than it is to encounter an ECC error: http://www.robinbetz.com/papers/xsede13_betz_walker_ecc.pdf http://www.robinbetz.com/papers/xsede13_betz_walker_ecc.pdf