Two-level soft error vulnerability prediction on SMT/CMP architectures

Authors

Lide Duan, Louisiana State University
Lu Peng, Louisiana State University
Bin Li, Louisiana State University

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Abstract

Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) [3] quantifies the probability that a raw soft error finally produces a visible error in the program output. It is often used by computer designers as an important reliability metric at the architectural level. However, the AVF measurement is extremely expensive in terms of hardware and computation. In this paper, we characterize and predict a program's AVF under resource contention and sharing with other programs running on Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) and Chip-Multiprocessor (CMP) architectures. © 2011 IEEE.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC - 2011

First Page

78

Recommended Citation

Duan, L., Peng, L., & Li, B. (2011). Two-level soft error vulnerability prediction on SMT/CMP architectures. Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization, IISWC - 2011, 78. https://doi.org/10.1109/IISWC.2011.6114203