Thomas Claiburn’s FYI: Today’s computer chips are so advanced, they are more ‘mercurial’ than precise – and here’s the proof discusses two recent papers that are relevant to the extraordinary levels of reliability needed in long-term digital preservation at scale.
- Silent Data Corruption at Scale by Harish Dattatraya Dixit et al from Facebook (blog post summary here).
- Cores that don’t count by Peter Hochschild et al from Google.
Below the fold some commentary on both papers…
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