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Record Nr.

UNISA996465458703316

Autore

Rocha da Rosa Felipe

Titolo

Soft error reliability using virtual platforms : early evaluation of multicore systems / / Felipe Rocha da Rosa, Luciano Ost and Ricardo Reis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-55704-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 136 p. 53 illus., 51 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

621.3815

Soggetti

Processor Architectures

Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation

Circuits and Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 . Introduction -- Chapter 2. Background on Soft Errors -- Chapter 3. Fault Injection Framework Using Virtual Platforms -- Chapter 4. Performance and Accuracy Assessment of Fault Injection Frameworks Based on VPs -- Chapter 5. Extensive Soft Error Evaluation -- Chapter 6. Machine Learning Applied to Soft Error Assessment in Multicoresystems.

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the benefits and drawbacks inherent in the use of virtual platforms (VPs) to perform fast and early soft error assessment of multicore systems. The authors show that VPs provide engineers with appropriate means to investigate new and more efficient fault injection and mitigation techniques. Coverage also includes the use of machine learning techniques (e.g., linear regression) to speed-up the soft error evaluation process by pinpointing parameters (e.g., architectural) with the most substantial impact on the software stack dependability. This book provides valuable information and insight through more than 3 million individual scenarios and 2 million simulation-hours. Further, this book explores machine learning techniques usage to navigate large fault injection datasets. Describes the most suitable and efficient virtual platforms to include fault



injection capabilities, aiming to support the soft error analysis of state-of-the-art processor models; Includes analysis and port of several benchmarks from embedded and HPC domains, including the Rodinia and NASA NAS Parallel Benchmark (NPB) suites; Introduces four novel, non-intrusive FI techniques enabling software engineers to perform in-depth and relevant soft error evaluation, addressing the gap between the available FI tools and the industry requirements; Explores machine learning techniques that can be used to enable the identification of individual (or combinations of) microarchitectural and software parameters that present the most substantial relation relationship with each detected soft error or failure.