Intel recently claimed that their bug fix gives little affect on the chip's performances last week.
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov> wrote: > On 01/05/2018 07:35 PM, Gerald Henriksen wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 17:32:19 -0500, you wrote: >> >> According to several articles I read today: >>> >>> Meltdown (1 exploit)is Intel-specific >>> Spectre (2 different exploits) affects just about every processor on >>> the planet. >>> >> This is correct, and the other key difference is that so far there is >> only a solution to Meltdown. >> >> The below linked page has this to say about Spectre: >> >> "As it is not easy to fix, it will haunt us for quite some time" >> >> Fedora has linked to this page for more info on the two: >> >> https://spectreattack.com/ >> >> > I haven't checked out that link yet, but from what I read, spectre is also > much harder to exploit, too, which mitigates the risk of spectre to some > extent. > > Prentice > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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