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I wonder what the chances are of a cosmic ray or some stray radiation causing AlphaGo to have problems. It's quite a rare event, but when you have 1920 CPUs an

I wonder what the chances are of a cosmic ray or some stray radiation causing AlphaGo to have problems. It's quite a rare event, but when you have 1920 CPUs and 280 GPUs, it might up the probability enough to be something you have to worry about.

teling 11y ago
I would expect them to be running on Google's distributed infrastructure which has error corrections through end to end checksums
- tomlock 11y ago
  Actually they were running on a single PC! https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/708489093676568576 https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/708489093676568576 ed: oops I misread!
  - mrgordon 11y ago
    "Using distributed for match but single machine AG very strong also" Doesn't this imply they weren't using a single PC?
    - barrym 11y ago
      They're using the distributed version for these matches, this question was just asked in the post match press conference.