Energy-Efficient Redundant Execution for Chip Multiprocessors
Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI on (GLSVLSI'10), Rhode Island, USA, May 16-18, 2010, pp. 143-146.
ABSTRACT
Relentless CMOS scaling coupled with lower design tolerances is making ICs increasingly susceptible to wear-out related permanent faults and transient faults, necessitating on-chip fault tolerance in future chip microprocessors (CMPs). In this paper, we describe a power-efficient architecture for redundant execution on chip multiprocessors (CMPs) which when coupled with our per-core dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) algorithm significantly reduces the energy overhead of redundant execution without sacrificing performance. Our evaluation shows that this architecture has a performance overhead of only 0.3% and consumes only 1.48 times the energy of a non-fault-tolerant baseline.
[SSKL10] Pramod Subramanyan, Virendra Singh, Kewal K. Saluja, Erik Larsson, "Energy-Efficient Redundant Execution for Chip Multiprocessors", Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI on (GLSVLSI'10), Rhode Island, USA, May 16-18, 2010, pp. 143-146. |
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