| ▲ | pantalaimon 6 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
They don't need to be space grade, consumer hardware will do just fine. For AI a random bit flip doesn't matter much. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | q3k 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Only if that bitflip happens somewhere in your actual data, vs. some GPU pipeline register that then locks up the entire system until a power cycle. Or causes a wrong address to be fetched. Or causes other nasty silent errors. Or... Try doing fault injection on a chip some time. You'll see it's significantly easier to cause a crash / reset / hang than to just flip data bits. 'rad-triggered bit flips don't matter with AI' is a lie spoken by people who have obviously never done any digital design in their life. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | gbriel 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
As long as they stay below Van Allen belts and deal with weaker magnetic shielding in sun synchronous orbit (high latitudes). I would say they probably something a little beefier than consumer hardware and just deal with lots of failures and bit flips. But cooling is a bigger issue probably? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ohyoutravel 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Random bit flips might even improve output. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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