Paper accepted @ DFTS 2019

Dear Stefano,

Congratulations!! On behalf of the DFT19 Program Committee, we are delighted to inform you that your paper “Combining Cluster Sampling and ACE analysis to improve fault-injection based reliability evaluation of GPU-based systems” has been ACCEPTED for ORAL presentation at the 32th IEEE Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems.

DFTS’19 will be held on October 2-4, 2019 in Delft, Netherlands.

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Paper Info:

Alessandro Vallero,  Stefano Di Carlo  “Combining Cluster Sampling and ACE analysis to improve fault-injection based reliability evaluation of GPU-based systems” 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, October 2 – October 4, 2019, ESA-ESTEC & TU Delft, Netherlands

Abstract:

Computing capability demand has grown massively in recent years. Modern GPU chips are designed to deliver extreme performance for graphics and for data-parallel general purpose computing workloads (GPGPU computing) as well. Many GPGPU applications require high reliability, thus relia- bility evaluation has become a crucial step during their design. State-of-the-art techniques to assess the reliability of a system are fault injection and ACE analysis. The former can produce accurate results despite eternal time while the latter is very fast but it lacks accuracy of the results. In this paper we introduce a new sampling methodology based on cluster sampling that enables the exploitation of ACE analysis to accelerate the fault injection process. In our experiments we demonstrate that state- of-the-art fault injection techniques, generating random faults according to a uniform distribution, is outperformed by the proposed sampling technique, thus enabling several advantages in terms of accuracy and evaluation time. To quantify the introduced benefits we analyzed the micro-architecture reliability of an AMD Southern Islands GPU in presence of single bit upset affecting the vector register file for 6 benchmarks. One of the most important achievements is that considering all the benchmarks, on average, we are one order of magnitude faster/more accurate than uniform-sampling-based techniques in case of non exhaustive fault injection campaigns, while more than two orders of magnitude in case of exhaustive campaigns.

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