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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by nol13 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @07:38PM (#14632865)
having often attributed these things to cosmic rays as well, anyone have any actual estimates on how often/likely cosmic rays are to cause errors in desktop-like setups?

had to have been a cosmic ray at least once right?

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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by Shikadi on Sunday June 25, 2017 @07:52PM (#14632920)
Cosmic ray errors (called soft errors in the industry) are measured in FIT rate, (failures in time) which is measured in failures per billion device hours. Basically, it's very unlikely to hit a desktop computer, somewhat likely to happen higher in the atmosphere/space, and very likely to happen in a system with hundreds or thousands of processors.
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Re:Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading by matt4077 on Monday June 26, 2017 @03:55AM (#14634875)
There are some numbers in http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-11/Dinaburg/BH_US_11_Dinabur...
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