scholarly journals Understanding Soft Error Resiliency of Blue Gene/Q Compute Chip through Hardware Proton Irradiation and Software Fault Injection

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Yong Cher ◽  
Meeta S. Gupta ◽  
Pradip Bose ◽  
K. Paul Muller
Keyword(s):  
Proton Irradiation ◽  
Fault Injection ◽  
Soft Error ◽  
Error Resiliency ◽  
Software Fault ◽  
Blue Gene

Soft error resiliency characterization and improvement on IBM BlueGene/Q processor using accelerated proton irradiation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen-Yong Cher ◽  
K. Paul Muller ◽  
Ruud A. Haring ◽  
David L. Satterfield ◽  
Thomas E. Musta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Proton Irradiation ◽  
Soft Error ◽  
Error Resiliency

Software Fault Injection Tool

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.K. Tapadiya ◽  
D.R. Avresky
Keyword(s):  
Fault Injection ◽  
Software Fault

Analyzing the Robustness of HPC Applications Using a Fine-Grained Soft Error Fault Injection Tool

2016 ◽  
pp. 277-305
Author(s):  
Qiang Guan ◽  
Nathan DeBardeleben ◽  
Sean Blanchard ◽  
Song Fu ◽  
Claude H. Davis IV ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Fault Injection ◽  
Soft Errors ◽  
Small Degree ◽  
Soft Error ◽  
Power Efficient ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Performance Computing

As the high performance computing (HPC) community continues to push towards exascale computing, HPC applications of today are only affected by soft errors to a small degree but we expect that this will become a more serious issue as HPC systems grow. We propose F-SEFI, a Fine-grained Soft Error Fault Injector, as a tool for profiling software robustness against soft errors. We utilize soft error injection to mimic the impact of errors on logic circuit behavior. Leveraging the open source virtual machine hypervisor QEMU, F-SEFI enables users to modify emulated machine instructions to introduce soft errors. F-SEFI can control what application, which sub-function, when and how to inject soft errors with different granularities, without interference to other applications that share the same environment. We demonstrate use cases of F-SEFI on several benchmark applications with different characteristics to show how data corruption can propagate to incorrect results. The findings from the fault injection campaign can be used for designing robust software and power-efficient hardware.

Computing reliability: On the differences between software testing and software fault injection techniques

2017 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 102-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maha Kooli ◽  
Firas Kaddachi ◽  
Giorgio Di Natale ◽  
Alberto Bosio ◽  
Pascal Benoit ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Testing ◽  
Fault Injection ◽  
Injection Techniques ◽  
Software Fault
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