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ICCD
2003
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Cost-Effective Graceful Degradation in Speculative Processor Subsystems: The Branch Prediction Case
We analyze the effect of errors in branch predictors, a representative example of speculative processor subsystems, to motivate the necessity for fault tolerance in such subsystem...
Sobeeh Almukhaizim, Thomas Verdel, Yiorgos Makris
ARITH
2009
IEEE
14 years 19 days ago
A New Binary Floating-Point Division Algorithm and Its Software Implementation on the ST231 Processor
This paper deals with the design and implementation of low latency software for binary floating-point division with correct rounding to nearest. The approach we present here targe...
Claude-Pierre Jeannerod, Herve Knochel, Christophe...
DSN
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Low overhead Soft Error Mitigation techniques for high-performance and aggressive systems
The threat of soft error induced system failure in high performance computing systems has become more prominent, as we adopt ultra-deep submicron process technologies. In this pap...
Naga Durga Prasad Avirneni, Viswanathan Subramania...
ISCA
2012
IEEE
191views Hardware» more  ISCA 2012»
11 years 11 months ago
VRSync: Characterizing and eliminating synchronization-induced voltage emergencies in many-core processors
Power consumption is a primary concern for microprocessor designers. Lowering the supply voltage of processors is one of the most effective techniques for improving their energy e...
Timothy N. Miller, Renji Thomas, Xiang Pan, Radu T...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Mechanisms for bounding vulnerabilities of processor structures
Concern for the increasing susceptibility of processor structures to transient errors has led to several recent research efforts that propose architectural techniques to enhance r...
Niranjan Soundararajan, Angshuman Parashar, Anand ...