I'm a student at the University of Washington and once talked to a representative for Cray about using GPU's a a cheaper supercomputer and he told me that they generally have a nontrivial error rate. The issue with using ECC memory is that the GPU's are also libel for errors within their computations, making the ECC RAM pointless. A weird pixel in one frame of a game is no problem, but an error when performing a large simulation creates problems if the algorithm isn't designed to compensate for that noise.
Wouldn't that be what a salesperson from Cray might be inclined to tell you?
They made a mistake and no one was harmed.
I'd be fine flying with anyone with 13,000 hours of experience and training.
Should be reprimanded, not grounded. You can bet they would not do this again!
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which views anyone who acts out of step with the government as a potential thread
*gasp* They're not going to sew him, are they?
No, they're going to stitch him up.
Anything that goes against the dark matter nonsense works for me.
Yes, this is good shit.
I'm a student at the University of Washington and once talked to a representative for Cray about using GPU's a a cheaper supercomputer and he told me that they generally have a nontrivial error rate. The issue with using ECC memory is that the GPU's are also libel for errors within their computations, making the ECC RAM pointless. A weird pixel in one frame of a game is no problem, but an error when performing a large simulation creates problems if the algorithm isn't designed to compensate for that noise.
Wouldn't that be what a salesperson from Cray might be inclined to tell you?
They made a mistake and no one was harmed. I'd be fine flying with anyone with 13,000 hours of experience and training. Should be reprimanded, not grounded. You can bet they would not do this again!