Experimental framework for injecting logic errors in a virtual machine to profile applications for soft error resilience

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7156 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 282-291

  Debardeleben, Nathan ^a   Blanchard, Sean ^a   Guan, Qiang ^a,b   Zhang, Ziming ^a,b   Fu, Song ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

fault injection; fault tolerance; high performance computing; reliability; resilience; soft errors; supercomputing; virtual machines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ERROR CORRECTION; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HARDWARE-SOFTWARE CODESIGN; NETWORK SECURITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; RADIATION HARDENING; RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING; VIRTUAL MACHINE;

FAULT INJECTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; RESILIENCE; SOFT ERROR; SUPERCOMPUTING;

COMPUTER CIRCUITS;

EID: 84882620187     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29740-3_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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