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Power Efficient Redundant Execution for Chip Multiprocessors

Pramod Subramanyan
 
Virendra Singh
Kewal K. Saluja
 
Erik Larsson

Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nanocomputing, Lisbon, Portugal, June 29, 2009, Paper 9, pp. 1-6.

ABSTRACT
This paper describes the design of a power efficient microarchitecture for transient fault detection in chip multiprocessors (CMPs) We introduce a new per-core dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) algorithm for our architecture that significantly reduces power dissipation for redundant execution with a minimal performance overhead. Using cycle accurate simulation combined with a simple first order power model, we estimate that our architecture reduces dynamic power dissipation in the redundant core by an mean value of 79% and a maximum of 85% with an associated mean performance overhead of only 1.2%.


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[SSKL09] Pramod Subramanyan, Virendra Singh, Kewal K. Saluja, Erik Larsson, "Power Efficient Redundant Execution for Chip Multiprocessors", Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nanocomputing, Lisbon, Portugal, June 29, 2009, Paper 9, pp. 1-6.
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