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# Cores that don’t count
- **期号**: SRE Weekly Issue #273(2021-06-06)
- **作者**: Peter H. Hochschild, Paul Turner, Jeffrey C. Mogul, Rama Govindaraju, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, David E. Culler, and Amin Vahdat — Google
- **链接**: https://sigops.org/s/conferences/hotos/2021/papers/hotos21-s01-hochschild.pdf
## 简介
This academic paper explains Google’s efforts toward identifying “mercurial” CPU coores — cores that make erroneous computations.
> […] we observe on the order of a few mercurial cores per several thousand machines […]
This one blew my mind:
> A deterministic AES mis-computation, which was “selfinverting”: encrypting and decrypting on the same core yielded the identity function, but decryption elsewhere yielded gibberish.
## 正文
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