Regional soft error vulnerability and error propagation analysis for GPGPU applications
I Öz, ÖF Karadaş - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022 - Springer
I Öz, ÖF Karadaş
The Journal of Supercomputing, 2022•SpringerThe wide use of GPUs for general-purpose computations as well as graphics programs
makes soft errors a critical concern. Evaluating the soft error vulnerability of GPGPU
programs and employing efficient fault tolerance techniques for more reliable execution
become more important. Protecting only the most error-sensitive program regions maintains
an acceptable reliability level by eliminating the large performance overheads due to
redundant operations. Therefore, fine-grained regional soft error vulnerability analysis is …
makes soft errors a critical concern. Evaluating the soft error vulnerability of GPGPU
programs and employing efficient fault tolerance techniques for more reliable execution
become more important. Protecting only the most error-sensitive program regions maintains
an acceptable reliability level by eliminating the large performance overheads due to
redundant operations. Therefore, fine-grained regional soft error vulnerability analysis is …
Abstract
The wide use of GPUs for general-purpose computations as well as graphics programs makes soft errors a critical concern. Evaluating the soft error vulnerability of GPGPU programs and employing efficient fault tolerance techniques for more reliable execution become more important. Protecting only the most error-sensitive program regions maintains an acceptable reliability level by eliminating the large performance overheads due to redundant operations. Therefore, fine-grained regional soft error vulnerability analysis is crucial for the systems targeting both performance and reliability. In this work, we present a regional fault injection framework and perform a detailed error propagation analysis to evaluate the soft error vulnerability of GPGPU applications. We evaluate both intra-kernel and inter-kernel vulnerabilities for a set of programs and quantify the severity of the data corruptions by considering metrics other than SDC rates. Our experimental study demonstrates that the code regions inside GPGPU programs exhibit different characteristics in terms of soft error vulnerability and the soft errors corrupting the variables propagate into the program output in several ways. We present the potential impact of our analysis by discussing the usage scenarios after we compile our observations acquired from our empirical work.
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