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SDCs: A B C

SDCs: A B C

by Dimitris Gizopoulos on Sep 16, 2024 | Tags: , ,

Data center hyperscalers (Meta, Google, Alibaba) have disclosed over the last four years an unexpectedly high number of CPUs (~1 in 1000) that produce Silent Data Corruptions (SDCs), i.e. program executions that produce wrong results without any observable indication....

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