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Understanding the Effects of Permanent Faults in GPU's Parallelism Management and Control Units

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Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are over-stressed to accelerate High-Performance Computing applications and are used to accelerate Deep Neural Networks in several domains where they have a life expectancy of many years. These conditions expose the GPUs hardware to (premature) aging, causing permanent faults to arise after the usual end-of-manufacturing test. Techniques to assess the impact of permanent faults in GPUs are then strongly required, thus allowing to estimate the reliability risk and to possibly mitigate it. In this paper, we present a method to evaluate the effects of permanent faults affecting the GPU scheduler and control units, which are the most peculiar and stressed resources, along with the first figures that allow quantifying these effects. We characterize over 5.83x10^5 permanent fault effects in the scheduler and controllers of a gate-level GPU model. Then, we map the observed error categories in software by instrumenting the code of 13 applications and two convolutional neural networks, injecting more than 1.65x10^5 permanent errors. Our two-level fault injection strategy reduces the evaluation time from hundreds of years of gate-level evaluation to hundreds of hours. We found that faults in the GPU parallelism management units can modify the opcode, the addresses, and the status of thread(s) and warp(s). The large majority (up to 99%) of these hardware permanent errors impacts the running software execution. Errors affecting the instruction operation or resource management hang the code, while 45% of errors in the parallelism management or control-flow induce silent data corruptions.
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hal-04132590 , version 1 (19-06-2023)

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Juan-David Guerrero-Balaguera, Josie E. Rodriguez Condia, Fernando F. dos Santos, Matteo Sonza, Paolo Rech. Understanding the Effects of Permanent Faults in GPU's Parallelism Management and Control Units. SC 2023 - ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, ACM; IEEE, Nov 2023, Denver, United States. pp.1-12, ⟨10.1145/3581784.3607086⟩. ⟨hal-04132590⟩
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