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Poster: a tunable, software-based DRAM error detection and correction library for HPC

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David Fiala,

Kurt Ferreira,

Frank Mueller,

Christian EngelmannAuthors Info & Claims

SC '11 Companion: Proceedings of the 2011 companion on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis Companion

Pages 49 - 50

https://doi.org/10.1145/2148600.2148626

Published: 12 November 2011 Publication History

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Proposed exascale systems will present a number of considerable resiliency challenges. In particular, DRAM soft-errors, or bit-flips, are expected to greatly increase due to the increased memory density of these systems. Current hardware-based fault-tolerance methods will be unsuitable for addressing the expected soft error frequency rate. As a result, additional software will be needed to address this challenge. In this paper we introduce LIBSDC, a tunable, transparent silent data corruption detection and correction library for HPC applications. LIBSDC provides comprehensive SDC protection for program memory by implementing on-demand page integrity verification by utilizing the MMU. Experimental benchmarks with Mantevo HPCCG show that once tuned, LIBSDC is able to achieve SDC protection with less than 100% overhead of resources.

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SC '11 Companion: Proceedings of the 2011 companion on High Performance Computing Networking, Storage and Analysis Companion

November 2011

166 pages

ISBN:9781450310307

DOI:10.1145/2148600

Conference Chair:
Scott Lathrop
University of Chicago
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Jim Costa
Sandia National Laboratories
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William Kramer
National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 12 November 2011

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SC '11: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis

November 12 - 18, 2011

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