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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by bitL on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:24AM (#15063698)
Some people run >32GB RAM with long uptime and there the chance of a random bit-flip might not be acceptable. Imagine working on some Deep Learning model, training it for 30 consecutive days and then hitting a memory bug during computation.
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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by Synaesthesia on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:36AM (#15063772)
Not your everyday requirement, also ML is somewhat tolerant to small faults like that.
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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by bitL on Monday August 21, 2017 @07:41AM (#15063788)
Depends. If a bit is flipped in a dataset you are likely fine, if in code your computation might crash. If you use enterprise-grade software like ZFS filesystem that keeps a lot in memory, it's much better to have ECC and accept a bit slower memory access for a bit better protection.
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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by OoooooooO on Monday August 21, 2017 @09:17AM (#15064298)
ZFS without ECC is pretty useless ...
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Re:Intel Launches 8th Generation CPUs, Starting with Kaby La... by michaelmrose on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:12PM (#15066425)
ZFS is no more vulnerable to corruption when running without ECC than any other file system.

The developers of zfs suggest ECC because ECC is a worthwhile thing for those who care about their data.

You should stop spreading misinformation.

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