The computing demands of applications coupled with the power wall problem in modern
processors are expected to pave the way for heterogeneous computing platforms that are …

The complexity of safety-related embedded computer systems is steadily increasing.
Besides verifying that such systems implement the correct functionality, it is essential to …

Future microprocessors need low-cost solutions for reliable operation in the presence of
failure-prone devices. A promising approach is to detect hardware faults by deploying low …

With more functionality added to future safety-critical avionics systems, new platforms are
required to offer the computational capacity needed. Multi-core processors offer a potential …

One predominant barrier encountered in furthering research and development efforts aimed
at facilitating resilient HPC applications is a substantial lack of existing reliability and …

Future multicore processors will be more susceptible to a variety of hardware failures. In
particular, intermittent faults, caused in part by manufacturing, thermal, and voltage …

This chapter presents a case study on how to characterize the resiliency of large-scale
computers. The analysis focuses on the failures and errors of Blue Waters, the Cray hybrid …

High performance computing (HPC) systems frequently suffer errors and failures from
hardware components that negatively impact the performance of jobs run on these systems …

Semiconductor transient faults (soft errors) are becoming an increasingly critical threat to
reliable software execution. With the advent of the billion transistor chip era, it is impractical …

Future multicore processors will be more susceptible to a variety of hardware failures. In
particular, intermittent faults, caused in part by manufacturing, thermal, and voltage …