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Hardware and software innovations in energy-efficient system-reliability monitoring

Hardware and software innovations in energy-efficient system-reliability monitoring
Hardware and software innovations in energy-efficient system-reliability monitoring
Many threats that can undermine the reliability of a system can be realized at design, while others only during its online operation. As the availability of system monitoring sensors and run-time software increases in heterogeneous platforms, there is a demand for a novel platform-independent framework that can capture and deliver, in a holistic way, system level self-assessment and adaptation capabilities at run-time. In this paper, two groups from academia and one from industry present the following three contributions. First, system reliability is considered from the perspective of novel timing guardband designs for aging mitigation. Effective timing guardband models are presented from the physical to the system level, while targeting multiple wear-out mechanisms. Second, a technique for correlating complex software and micro-architectural events with power integrity loss is presented. The presented technique uses an embedded voltage noise sensor, a power-network model and a genetic algorithm for identifying workload that triggers power-network resonances which can ultimately lead to system failures. Third, the ‘PRiME’ cross-layer programming framework is presented that unites available sensors and dynamic-voltage and frequency scaling actuators with learning-based run-time process mapping and scheduling algorithms. Scenarios on exploring the energy efficiency and reliability of heterogeneous platforms using run-time software derived from the developed framework are also reviewed.
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Tenentes, Vasileios
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Tenentes, Vasileios, Leech, Charles, Bragg, Graeme, Merrett, Geoffrey, Al-Hashimi, Bashir, Amrouch, Hussam, Henkel, Jörg and Das, Shidhartha (2017) Hardware and software innovations in energy-efficient system-reliability monitoring. In IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems. IEEE. 5 pp . (In Press) (doi:10.1109/DFT.2017.8244435).

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Abstract

Many threats that can undermine the reliability of a system can be realized at design, while others only during its online operation. As the availability of system monitoring sensors and run-time software increases in heterogeneous platforms, there is a demand for a novel platform-independent framework that can capture and deliver, in a holistic way, system level self-assessment and adaptation capabilities at run-time. In this paper, two groups from academia and one from industry present the following three contributions. First, system reliability is considered from the perspective of novel timing guardband designs for aging mitigation. Effective timing guardband models are presented from the physical to the system level, while targeting multiple wear-out mechanisms. Second, a technique for correlating complex software and micro-architectural events with power integrity loss is presented. The presented technique uses an embedded voltage noise sensor, a power-network model and a genetic algorithm for identifying workload that triggers power-network resonances which can ultimately lead to system failures. Third, the ‘PRiME’ cross-layer programming framework is presented that unites available sensors and dynamic-voltage and frequency scaling actuators with learning-based run-time process mapping and scheduling algorithms. Scenarios on exploring the energy efficiency and reliability of heterogeneous platforms using run-time software derived from the developed framework are also reviewed.

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Local EPrints ID: 413034
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/413034
PURE UUID: 2c1046ab-6f02-49bd-ba65-16a337e830f7
ORCID for Charles Leech: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2403-3873
ORCID for Graeme Bragg: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5201-7977
ORCID for Geoffrey Merrett: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4980-3894

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Author: Vasileios Tenentes
Author: Charles Leech ORCID iD
Author: Graeme Bragg ORCID iD
Author: Geoffrey Merrett ORCID iD
Author: Bashir Al-Hashimi
Author: Hussam Amrouch
Author: Jörg Henkel
Author: Shidhartha Das

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