| ▲ | SeanSullivan86 17 hours ago | |
Hmm, can someone educate me here? Why don't bit flips ever seem to impact the results of calculations in settings like big-data analytics on AWS? Is it a difference between server hardware managed by knowledgeable people and random hardware thrown together by home PC builders? | ||
| ▲ | huhhuh 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
In Belgium elections, a party received 4096 unaccounted votes likely due to a bit flip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voting_in_Belgium#R.... | ||
| ▲ | matja 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
You can only detect what you measure. Are these big-data analytics processes running multiple times to detect differences? | ||
| ▲ | zadikian 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Servers and pro workstations normally have ECC RAM. | ||
| ▲ | OkGoDoIt 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Presumably professional hardware uses ECC memory, which automatically corrects these kinds of errors. | ||