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> Since we don't have our own particle accelerator to bombard the memory modules with in order to cause radiation-based errors I really want to see someone get
by zkms 10y ago
> Since we don't have our own particle accelerator to bombard the memory modules with in order to cause radiation-based errors
I really want to see someone get some radioisotopes and place them next to both ECC and non-ECC RAM (while forcing reads and writes to the affected memory) to see what sort of soft errors / SEUs happen.
- _ihaque 10y agoThe folks at Los Alamos have done that one better and actually measured GPUs placed in neutron beamlines: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/skeckler/pubs/SELSE_2014_Reliability.pdf https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/skeckler/pubs/SELSE_2014_Rel... http://users.nccs.gov/~vazhkuda/hpca.pdf http://users.nccs.gov/~vazhkuda/hpca.pdf (section 6)
- zkms 10y agoLovely!