Cross-Core event monitoring for processor failure prediction

Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 67-73

  Salfner, Felix ^a   Tröger, Peter ^a   Tschirpke, Steffen ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Failure prediction; Fault injection; Multi core; Performance counter

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY PROCESSORS; CORE PROCESSORS; EVENT MONITORING; EXECUTION UNITS; FAILURE PREDICTION; FAULT INJECTION; HARDWARE FAILURES; HARDWARE PERFORMANCE COUNTERS; IN-CHIP; MULTI-CORE; ONE CHIP; PERFORMANCE COUNTER; PREDICTION QUALITY; PROCESS MANAGEMENT; PROCESSOR FAILURES; RANK SUM TESTS; RECENT TRENDS; TRANSISTOR COUNT;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 70449479757     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCSIM.2009.5191988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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