Sep 17, 2016 · As a foundation for making such a system, we propose a cross-layer approach for estimating the architectural vulnerability of a processor core ...

Processor soft-error rates are projected to increase as feature sizes scale down, necessitating the adoption of reliability-enhancing techniques, but power ...

The hardware layer combines the metadata from software and compiler layers with microarchitectural measurements to estimate architectural vulnerability online.

The hardware layer combines the metadata from software and compiler layers with microarchitectural measurements to estimate architectural vulnerability online.

TL;DR: This work proposes a cross-layer approach for estimating the architectural vulnerability of a processor core online that works by combining ...

Toward a Cross-Layer Approach for Dynamic Vulnerability Estimation · Bagus Wibowo, Abhinav Agrawal, James Tuck · Published 2014 · Engineering, Computer Science.

The results show that our method provides acceptably accurate AVF estimates at runtime. The absolute error rarely exceeds 0.08 across all application intervals ...

Mar 10, 2017 · The key idea is the design of a System Vulnerability Model (SVM), which approximates the vulnerability of an application to a hardware error.

This work presents a first-order mechanistic analytical model for computing Architectural Vulnerability Factor (AVF) by estimating the occupancy of ...

It highlights divergences between popular software-based vulnerability evaluation methods and the ground truth cross- layer evaluation (which, as we show, holds ...