GSRC Student Profile:
Robert Smolinski
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University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign
Advisor: Sarita Adve
GSRC theme: resiliency
Expected graduation: May, 2015 |
Research Overview: CrashTest'ing SWAT
The SoftWare Anamoly Treatment project from UIUC has shown great promise as an effective and low-cost resiliency solution for hardware faults. An important question that was facing SWAT was whether simulation results using microarchitectural simulators are representative of the results that would be seen with a real gate-level design of hardware.
The CrashTest project from Michigan has developed a toolkit that instruments a real hardware design with hardware faults and allows it to be used on FPGAs.
For my work, I collaborated with both teams in developing a FPGA prototype that is capable of validating SWATs efficacy on real world hardware design and with a full software stack running in order to match real world conditions as closely as possible. Our evaluation results show that SWAT is indeed effective for hardware faults with <.9% silent data corruption (SDC) rate over 50K fault injections.
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