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EnglishGraphics Processing Units (GPUs) are today adopted in several domains for which reliability is fundamental, such as self-driving cars and autonomous machines. Unfortunately, on one side GPUs have been shown to have a high error rate and, on the other side, the constraints imposed by real-time safety-critical applications make traditional, costly, replication-based hardening solutions inadequate. This paper proposes an effective microarchitectural selective hardening of GPU modules to mitigate those faults that affect instructions correct execution. We first characterize, through Register-Transfer Level (RTL) fault injections, the architectural vulnerabilities of a GPU model (FlexGripPlus). We specifically target transient faults in the functional units and pipeline registers of a GPU core. Then, we apply selective hardening by triplicating the locations in each module that we found to be more critical. The results show that selective hardening using Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) can correct 85% to 99% of faults in the pipeline registers and from 50% to 100% of faults in the functional units. The proposed selective TMR strategy reduces the hardware overhead by up to 65% when compared with traditional TMR.
Protecting GPU's Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities via Effective Selective Hardening / Rodriguez Condia, Josie Esteban; Rech, Paolo; Fernandes dos Santos, Fernando; Carro, Luigi; Sonza Reorda, Matteo. - ELETTRONICO. - (2021), pp. 1-7. ((Intervento presentato al convegno 2021 IEEE 27th International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS) tenutosi a Torino, Italy nel 28-30 June 2021 [10.1109/IOLTS52814.2021.9486703].
| Titolo: | Protecting GPU's Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities via Effective Selective Hardening | |
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| Data di pubblicazione: | 2021 | |
| Abstract: | Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are today adopted in several domains for which reliability is fu...ndamental, such as self-driving cars and autonomous machines. Unfortunately, on one side GPUs have been shown to have a high error rate and, on the other side, the constraints imposed by real-time safety-critical applications make traditional, costly, replication-based hardening solutions inadequate. This paper proposes an effective microarchitectural selective hardening of GPU modules to mitigate those faults that affect instructions correct execution. We first characterize, through Register-Transfer Level (RTL) fault injections, the architectural vulnerabilities of a GPU model (FlexGripPlus). We specifically target transient faults in the functional units and pipeline registers of a GPU core. Then, we apply selective hardening by triplicating the locations in each module that we found to be more critical. The results show that selective hardening using Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) can correct 85% to 99% of faults in the pipeline registers and from 50% to 100% of faults in the functional units. The proposed selective TMR strategy reduces the hardware overhead by up to 65% when compared with traditional TMR. | |
| ISBN: | 978-1-6654-3370-9 | |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno |
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