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CAROL-FI: an Efficient Fault-Injection Tool for Vulnerability Evaluation of Modern HPC Parallel Accelerators

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Daniel Oliveira,

Vinicius Frattin,

Philippe Navaux,

Paolo RechAuthors Info & Claims

CF'17: Proceedings of the Computing Frontiers Conference

Pages 295 - 298

https://doi.org/10.1145/3075564.3075598

Published: 15 May 2017 Publication History

Abstract

Transient faults are a major problem for large scale HPC systems, and the mitigation of adverse fault effects need to be highly efficient as we approach exascale. We developed a fault injection tool (CAROL-FI) to identify the potential sources of adverse fault effects. With a deeper understanding of such effects, we provide useful insights to design efficient mitigation techniques, like selective hardening of critical portions of the code.

We performed a fault injection campaign injecting more than 67,000 faults into an Intel Xeon Phi executing six representative HPC programs. We show that selective hardening can be successfully applied to DGEMM and Hotspot while LavaMD and NW may require a complete code hardening.

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DOI:10.1145/3075564

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