Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2年前The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing dailymessage-squaremessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down16
arrow-up1113arrow-down1message-squareThe probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing dailyArtemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2年前message-square36fedilink
minus-squareCaveman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2年前I thought we already had a way to deal with bit flips. CPU bit flips should be common by now because of the size of processors these days.
minus-squareThoth19@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2年前Yup. There is technology to deal with this. But does every piece of hw have that tech? No. Does every piece of sw run eccs for this purpose? No.
I thought we already had a way to deal with bit flips. CPU bit flips should be common by now because of the size of processors these days.
Yup. There is technology to deal with this. But does every piece of hw have that tech? No. Does every piece of sw run eccs for this purpose? No.