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ECC modules use the same chips as non ECC modules so it eats into the consumer market too.

• officialchicken 11mo ago
  Good point! But they are slightly more energy hungry. At these scales I wonder if Stargate could go with one less nuclear reactor simply by switching to non-ECC RAM
  • Majromax 11mo ago
    Penny-wise and pound foolish. Non-ECC RAM might save on the small amount of RAM power, but if a bit-flip causes a failed computation then an entire forwards/backwards step – possibly involving several nodes – might need to be redone.
    • coldtea 11mo ago
      >but if a bit-flip causes a failed computation then an entire forwards/backwards step – possibly involving several nodes – might need to be redone. Which for the most part it would be an irrelevant cost-of-doing business compared to the huge savings from non-ECC and how incosequential it is if some ChatGPT computation fails...
    • hylaride 11mo ago
      Linus Torvalds was recently on Linux Tech Tips to build a new computer and he insisted on ECC RAM. Torvalds was convinced that memory errors are a much greater problem for stability than otherwise posted and he's spent an inordinate amount of time chasing phantom bugs because of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA