This chapter utilizes the power of the fault injection framework previously detailed to
investigate soft error reliability from two distinct approaches:(1) the impact of different …

Future exascale application programmers and users have a need to quantity an
application's resilience and vulnerability to soft errors before running their codes on …

This book describes the benefits and drawbacks inherent in the use of virtual platforms (VPs)
to perform fast and early soft error assessment of multicore systems. The authors show that …

Increasing chip power densities allied to the continuous technology shrink is making
emerging multiprocessor embedded systems more vulnerable to soft errors. Due the high …

Transient faults are emerging as a critical concern in the reliability of general-purpose
microprocessors. As architectural trends point toward multicore designs, there is substantial …

A new approach for providing fault detection and correction capabilities by using software
techniques only is described. The approach is suitable for developing safety-critical …

Software-only reliability techniques protect against transient faults without the overhead of
hardware techniques. Although existing low-level software-only fault-tolerance techniques …

Soft errors are a growing concern for processor reliability. Recent work has motivated
architecture level studies of soft errors since the architecture level can mask many raw errors …

Reliability is of great concern to the scalability of extreme-scale systems. Of particular
concern are soft errors in main memory, which are a leading cause of failures on current …

An important step in the development of dependable systems is the validation of their fault
tolerance properties. Fault injection has been widely used for this purpose, however with the …