Comment by worldsavior
12 hours ago
Off topic, but say you have a program that needs to calculate something but takes a long long time, how to counter hardware failure without needing to calculate everything from the start?
12 hours ago
Off topic, but say you have a program that needs to calculate something but takes a long long time, how to counter hardware failure without needing to calculate everything from the start?
Typically you use redundant computations, which don't have to be done from the start. You could calculate intermediate values and check them before proceeding