Understanding soft error propagation using Efficient vulnerability-driven fault injection

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Xu, Xin ^a   Li, Man Lap ^a  

^a George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault Analysis; Fault Injection; Microarchitecture; Soft Error; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

FAULT ANALYSIS; FAULT INJECTION; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; SOFT ERROR; VULNERABILITY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL STORAGE; ERRORS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866649524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2012.6263923     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (29)

1. S. Borkar, "Designing reliable systems from unreliable components: The challenges of transistor variability and degradation," IEEE Micro, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 10-16, 2005.
2. P. Ramachandran et al, "Statistical Fault Injection," in Proceedings of International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2008.
3. G. P. Saggese et al, "An Experimental Study of Soft Errors in Microprocessors," IEEE Micro, vol. 25, no. 6, 2005.
4. M. Dimitrov and H. Zhou, "Unified Architectural Support for Soft-Error Protection or Software Bug Detection," in Proceedings of International Conference on Parallel Archtectures and Compilation Techniques, 2007.
5. S. Feng, S. Gupta, A. Ansari, and S. A. Mahlke, "Shoestring: probabilistic soft error reliability on the cheap," in ASPLOS, 2010, pp. 385-396.
6. M. Li et al., "Understanding the Propagation of Hard Errors to Software and Implications for Resilient Systems Design," in ASPLOS, 2008.
7. P. Racunas et al., "Perturbation-based Fault Screening," in Proceedings of International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, 2007.
8. S. Sahoo et al., "Using Likely Program Invariants to Detect Hardware Errors," in Proceedings of International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2008.
9. N. Wang and S. Patel, "Restore: Symptom-Based Soft Error Detection in Microprocessors," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 3, no. 3, July-Sept 2006.
10. J. Cook and C. Zilles, "A characterization of instruction-level error derating and its implications for error detection," in Dependable Systems and Networks With FTCS and DCC, 2008. DSN 2008. IEEE International Conference on, 2008, pp. 482-491.
11. S. S. Mukherjee et al., "A Systematic Methodology to Compute the Architectural Vulnerability Factors for a High-Performance Microprocessor," in MICRO, 2003.
12. V. Sridharan and D. Kaeli, "Eliminating microarchitectural dependency from architectural vulnerability," in High Performance Computer Architecture, 2009. HPCA 2009. IEEE 15th International Symposium on, 2009, pp. 117-128.
13. C. T. Weaver, J. Emer, S. S. Mukherjee, and S. K. Reinhardt, "Reducing the soft-error rate of a high-performance microprocessor," IEEE Micro, vol. 24, no. 6, 2004.
14. N. J. Wang, M. Fertig, and S. J. Patel, "Y-branches: When you come to a fork in the road, take it," in IEEE PACT, 2003, pp. 56-67.
15. H. Cha, E. Rudnick, J. Patel, R. Iyer, and G. Choi, "A gate-level simulation environment for alpha-particle-induced transient faults," Computers, IEEE Transactions on, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 1248-1256, Nov. 1996.
16. N. A. Kanawati, G. A. Kanawati, and J. A. Abraham, "Dependability evaluation using hybrid fault/error injection," in Proc. Intl. Symp. Comp. Performance and Dependability, 1995.
17. H.-S. Kim, A. K. Somani, and A. Tyagi, "A Reconfigurable Multifunction Computing Cache Architecture," in International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays, 2000.
18. K. Reick, P. Sanda, S. Swaney, J. Kellington, M. Mack, M. Floyd, and D. Henderson, "Fault-tolerant design of the ibm power6 microprocessor," Micro, IEEE, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 30-38, 2008.
19. T. K. Tsai and R. K. Iyer, "Measuring fault tolerance with the ftape fault injection tool," in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Modelling Techniques and Tools for Computer Performance Evaluation: Quantitative Evaluation of Computing and Communication Systems. London, UK: Springer-Verlag, 1995, pp. 26-40. [Online]. Available: http://portal.acm.org/ citation.cfm?id=648080.746851
20. N. Wang et al., "Characterizing the Effects of Transient Faults on a High-Performance Processor Pipeline," in Proceedings of International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2004.
21. N. J. Wang, A. Mahesri, and S. J. Patel, "Examining ace analysis reliability estimates using fault-injection," in Proceedings of the 34th annual international symposium on Computer architecture, ser. ISCA '07. New York NY, USA: ACM, 2007, pp. 460-469. [Online]. Available: http://doi.acm.org/10. 1145/1250662.1250719
22. A. Biswas, P. Racunas, J. Emer, and S. Mukherjee, "Computing accurate avfs using ace analysis on performance models: A rebuttal," Computer Architecture Letters, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 21-24, 2008.
23. S. K. S. Hari, S. V. Adve, H. Naeimi, and P. Ramachandran, "Relyzer: exploiting application-level fault equivalence to analyze application resiliency to transient faults," in ASPLOS, 2012, pp. 123-134.
24. N. Neelakantam et al., "FeS2: A Full-system Execution-driven Simulator for x86," Website, 2010, http://fes2.cs.uiuc.edu/.
25. W River, "Simics Full System Simulator," Website, 2011, http://www.simics.net/.
26. M. T. Yourst, "PTLSim: x86-64 Cycle Accurate Processor Simulation Design Infrastructure," Website, 2009, http://www.ptlsim.org/.
27. P. Ramachandran, "Detecting and Recovering from In-core Hardware Faults through software Treatment," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, 2011, none.
28. X. Li and D. Yeung, "Application-level correctness and its impact on fault tolerance," in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE 13th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture, ser. HPCA '07. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2007, pp. 181-192. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HPCA.2007.346196
29. P. Montesinos, W Liu, and J. Torrellas, "Using register lifetime predictions to protect register files against soft errors," in Proceedings of the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, ser. DSN '07. Washington, DC, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 2007, pp. 286-296. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DSN.2007.99