How the Meltdown and Spectre bugs work and what you can do to prevent a performance plummet

January 8, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Can you afford to lose a third of your compute real estate? If not, you need to pre-empt the impact of Meltdown and Spectre.

Meltdown and Spectre are quickly becoming household names and not just in the HPC space. The severe design flaws in Intel microprocessors that could allow sensitive data to be stolen and the fixes are likely to be bad news for any I/O intensive applications such as those often used in HPC.

Ellexus Ltd, the I/O profiling company, has released a white paper: How the Meltdown and Spectre bugs work and what you can do to prevent a performance plummet.

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Radio Free HPC Looks at Spectre and Meltdown Exploits

January 8, 2018 by

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the performance ramifications of the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that affect processors from Intel, AMD, and many others. While patches are on the way, the performance hit from these patches could be as high as twenty or thirty percent in some cases.

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