Hard data on soft errors: A large-scale assessment of real-world error rates in GPGPU

CCGrid 2010 - 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 691-696

  Haque, Imran S ^a   Pande, Vijay S ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EXPERIMENTS; CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROXIES; ERROR RATE; ERROR-CHECKING; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; HARD DATA; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; MEMORY ERROR; MEMORY SOFT ERRORS; MEMORY SUBSYSTEMS; NVIDIA GRAPHICS; OVERCLOCKING; REAL-WORLD; SOFT ERROR;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; ERROR CORRECTION; GRID COMPUTING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 77954927265     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID.2010.84     Document Type: Conference Paper

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