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arXiv:1810.06472 (cs)
[Submitted on 15 Oct 2018]

Title:Memory Vulnerability: A Case for Delaying Error Reporting

Authors:Luc Jaulmes, Miquel Moretó, Mateo Valero, Marc Casas
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Abstract:To face future reliability challenges, it is necessary to quantify the risk of error in any part of a computing system. To this goal, the Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) has long been used for chips. However, this metric is used for offline characterisation, which is inappropriate for memory. We survey the literature and formalise one of the metrics used, the Memory Vulnerability Factor, and extend it to take into account false errors. These are reported errors which would have no impact on the program if they were ignored. We measure the False Error Aware MVF (FEA) and related metrics precisely in a cycle-accurate simulator, and compare them with the effects of injecting faults in a program's data, in native parallel runs. Our findings show that MVF and FEA are the only two metrics that are safe to use at runtime, as they both consistently give an upper bound on the probability of incorrect program outcome. FEA gives a tighter bound than MVF, and is the metric that correlates best with the incorrect outcome probability of all considered metrics.
Subjects: Hardware Architecture (cs.AR)
Cite as: arXiv:1810.06472 [cs.AR]
  (or arXiv:1810.06472v1 [cs.AR] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1810.06472
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IOLTS.2019.8854397

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From: Luc Jaulmes [view email]
[v1] Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:44:27 UTC (23 KB)
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