Prevention from Soft Errors via Architecture Elasticity |
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Authors: | Yi-Xiao Yin Yun-Ji Chen Qi Guo Tian-Shi Chen |
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Affiliation: | 1. State Key Lab of Computer Architecture and Microprocessor Research Center, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China 3. Loongson Technology Corporation Limited, Beijing, 100190, China 4. IBM Research-China, Beijing, 100193, China
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Abstract: | Due to the decreasing threshold voltages, shrinking feature size, as well as the exponential growth of on-chip transistors, modern processors are increasingly vulnerable to soft errors. However, traditional mechanisms of soft error mitigation take actions to deal with soft errors only after they have been detected. Instead of the passive responses, this paper proposes a novel mechanism which proactively prevents from the occurrence of soft errors via architecture elasticity. In the light of a predictive model, we adapt the processor architectures holistically and dynamically. The predictive model provides the ability to quickly and accurately predict the simulation target across different program execution phases on any architecture configurations by leveraging an artificial neural network model. Experimental results on SPEC CPU 2000 benchmarks show that our method inherently reduces the soft error rate by 33.2% and improves the energy efficiency by 18.3% as compared with the static configuration processor. |
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Keywords: | soft error energy efficiency architecture elasticity |
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