Title
The resilience wall: Cross-layer solution strategies
Abstract
Resilience to hardware failures is a key challenge for a large class of future computing systems that are constrained by the so-called power wall: from embedded systems to supercomputers. Today's mainstream computing systems typically assume that transistors and interconnects operate correctly during useful system lifetime. With enormous complexity and significantly increased vulnerability to failures compared to the past, future system designs cannot rely on such assumptions. At the same time, there is explosive growth in our dependency on such systems. To overcome this outstanding challenge, this paper advocates and examines a cross-layer resilience approach. Two major components of this approach are: 1. System and software-level effects of circuit-level faults are considered from early stages of system design; and, 2. resilience techniques are implemented across multiple layers of the system stack - from circuit and architecture levels to runtime and applications - such that they work together to achieve required degrees of resilience in a highly energy-efficient manner. Illustrative examples to demonstrate key aspects of cross-layer resilience are discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/VLSI-TSA.2014.6839639
VLSI-DAT
Keywords
Field
DocType
circuit reliability,network synthesis,architecture levels,circuit-level faults,cross-layer resilience,cross-layer solution strategy,embedded systems,hardware failures,power wall,resilience wall,software-level effects,supercomputers,system designs,system stack,transistors
Psychological resilience,Cross layer,Architecture,Computer science,Systems design,Electronic engineering,Computing systems,Vulnerability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.42
37
Authors
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Subhasish Mitra13657228.90
Pradip Bose22790210.58
Eric Cheng3162.97
Chen-Yong Cher477039.92
Hyungmin Cho541322.09
Rajiv V. Joshi626064.87
Young Moon Kim721611.24
Charles R. Lefurgy819613.79
Yanjing Li970.42
K. P. Rodbell103314.76
Kevin Skadron116188384.18
James H. Stathis12414.53
Lukasz G. Szafaryn131417.69