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> My understanding is the stats from hyperscalers is that ECC correction events happen a lot more than "Common Knowledge" may imply - I wonder just what proport
by temac 5y ago
> My understanding is the stats from hyperscalers is that ECC correction events happen a lot more than "Common Knowledge" may imply - I wonder just what proportion of things that are blamed on software may actually be due to hardware issues like this?
What is the order of magnitude of ECC correction events?
- wmf 5y agohttps://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
- sliken 5y agoLooks like a good paper, but transistors have gotten quite a bit smaller since 2009, and voltages have gotten lower as well. So the energy required to flip a bit has shrunk quite a bit since 2009.