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Early in google life they skimped on ecc memory for their 30 thousand something serves (it was way back then). All sorts of nasty hardware bugs… Even in my time
by dilyevsky 4y ago
Early in google life they skimped on ecc memory for their 30 thousand something serves (it was way back then). All sorts of nasty hardware bugs… Even in my time with ecc there was all sorts of cpu bugs that would occasionally mess up every job that happened to land on a particular node
- H8crilA 4y agoBitflips are still very much a thing, but you need to be processing datasets at least several petabytes in size to get a decent probability of a bitflip/instruction error. It's always about the probability of a flip/error, not about whether they exist at all. They always exist.