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Record W2240238332 · doi:10.1145/2831234

F <scp>ault</scp> S <scp>im</scp>

2015· article· en· W2240238332 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization · 2015
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSemiconductor materials and devices
Canadian institutionsAdvanced Micro Devices (Canada)
FundersDefense Advanced Research Projects AgencyMicroelectronics Advanced Research Corporation
KeywordsComputer scienceBCH codeDramReliability engineeringReliability (semiconductor)Monte Carlo methodParallel computingError detection and correctionAlgorithmComputer hardwareEngineering

Abstract

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As memory systems scale, maintaining their Reliability Availability and Serviceability (RAS) is becoming more complex. To make matters worse, recent studies of DRAM failures in data centers and supercomputer environments have highlighted that large-granularity failures are common in DRAM chips. Furthermore, the move toward 3D-stacked memories can make the system vulnerable to newer failure modes, such as those occurring from faults in Through-Silicon Vias (TSVs). To architect future systems and to use emerging technology, system designers will need to employ strong error correction and repair techniques. Unfortunately, evaluating the relative effectiveness of these reliability mechanisms is often difficult and is traditionally done with analytical models, which are both error prone and time-consuming to develop. To this end, this article proposes F ault S im , a fast configurable memory-reliability simulation tool for 2D and 3D-stacked memory systems. FaultSim employs Monte Carlo simulations, which are driven by real-world failure statistics. We discuss the novel algorithms and data structures used in FaultSim to accelerate the evaluation of different resilience schemes. We implement BCH-1 (SECDED) and ChipKill codes using FaultSim and validate against an analytical model. FaultSim implements BCH-1 and ChipKill codes with a deviation of only 0.032% and 8.41% from the analytical model. FaultSim can simulate 1 million Monte Carlo trials (each for a period of 7 years) of BCH-1 and ChipKill codes in only 34 seconds and 33 seconds, respectively.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.691
Threshold uncertainty score0.937

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.202 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it