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SCHEDULE: NOV 15-20, 2015

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VOCL-FT: Introducing Techniques for Efficient Soft Error Coprocessor Recovery

SESSION: Resilience

EVENT TYPE: Papers

EVENT TAG(S): Power, Performance, System Software, Resiliency

TIME: 2:00PM - 2:30PM

SESSION CHAIR(S): Frank Mueller

AUTHOR(S):Antonio J. Peña, Wesley Bland, Pavan Balaji

ROOM:19AB

ABSTRACT:

Popular accelerator programming models rely on offloading computation operations and their corresponding data transfers to the coprocessors, leveraging synchronization points where needed. In this paper we identify and explore how such a programming model enables optimization opportunities not utilized in traditional checkpoint/restart systems, and we analyze them as the building blocks for an efficient fault-tolerant system for accelerators. Although we leverage our techniques to protect from detected but uncorrected ECC errors in the device memory in OpenCL-accelerated applications, coprocessor reliability solutions based on different error detectors and similar API semantics can directly adopt the techniques we propose. Adding error detection and protection involves a tradeoff between runtime overhead and recovery time. Although optimal configurations depend on the particular application, the length of the run, the error rate, and the temporary storage speed, our test cases reveal a good balance with significantly reduced runtime overheads.

Chair/Author Details:

Frank Mueller (Chair) - North Carolina State University|

Antonio J. Peña - Argonne National Laboratory

Wesley Bland - Argonne National Laboratory

Pavan Balaji - Argonne National Laboratory

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