Paper Info
Title
Detection of Silent Data Corruptions in Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations.
Abstract
Silent data corruptions (SDCs) hinder the correctness of long-running scientific applications on large scale computing systems. Selective particle replication (SPR) is proposed herein as the first particle-based replication method for detecting SDCs in Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations. SPH is a mesh-free Lagrangian method commonly used to perform hydrodynamical simulations in astrophysics and computational fluid dynamics. SPH performs interpolation of physical properties over neighboring discretization points (called SPH particles) that dynamically adapt their distribution to the mass density field of the fluid. When a fault (e.g., a bit-flip) strikes the computation or the data associated with a particle, the resulting error is silently propagated to all nearest neighbors through such interpolation steps. SPR replicates the computation and data of a few carefully selected SPH particles. SDCs are detected when the data of a particle differs, due to corruption, from its replicated counterpart. SPR is able to detect many DRAM SDCs as they propagate by ensuring that all particles have at least one neighbor that is replicated. The detection capabilities of SPR were assessed through a set of error-injection and detection experiments and the overhead of SPR was evaluated via a set of strong-scaling experiments conducted on an HPC system. The results show that SPR achieves detection rates of 91-99.9%, no false-positives, at an overhead of 1-10%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ccgrid.2019.00013
CCGRID
Field
DocType
Volume
Dram,Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics,Discretization,Computer science,Correctness,Interpolation,Algorithm,Real-time computing,Computational fluid dynamics,Particle,Computation
Journal
abs/1904.10221
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aurélien Cavelan1388.08
Rubén M. Cabezón263.56
Ciorba Florina M.312522.96