TY - GEN
T1 - Error behavior comparison of multiple computing systems
T2 - 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008
AU - Chen, Daniel
AU - Gabriela, Jacques Silva
AU - Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew
AU - Iyer, Ravishankar K.
AU - Mealey, Bruce
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - This paper presents an approach to conducting experimental studies for the characterization and comparison of the error behavior in different computing systems. The proposed approach is applied to characterize and compare the error behavior of three commercial systems (Linux 2.6 on Pentium 4, Solaris 10 on UltraSPARC IIIi, and AIX 5.3 on POWER 5) under hardware transient faults. The data is obtained by conducting extensive fault injection into kernel code, kernel stack, and system registers with the NFTAPE framework while running the Apache Web Server as a workload. The error behavior comparison shows that the Linux System has the highest average crash latency, the Solaris System has the highest hang rate, and the AIX System has the lowest error sensitivity and the least amount of crashes in the more severe categories.
AB - This paper presents an approach to conducting experimental studies for the characterization and comparison of the error behavior in different computing systems. The proposed approach is applied to characterize and compare the error behavior of three commercial systems (Linux 2.6 on Pentium 4, Solaris 10 on UltraSPARC IIIi, and AIX 5.3 on POWER 5) under hardware transient faults. The data is obtained by conducting extensive fault injection into kernel code, kernel stack, and system registers with the NFTAPE framework while running the Apache Web Server as a workload. The error behavior comparison shows that the Linux System has the highest average crash latency, the Solaris System has the highest hang rate, and the AIX System has the lowest error sensitivity and the least amount of crashes in the more severe categories.
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U2 - 10.1109/PRDC.2008.35
DO - 10.1109/PRDC.2008.35
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60349097095
SN - 9780769534480
T3 - Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008
SP - 339
EP - 346
BT - Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008
Y2 - 15 December 2008 through 17 December 2008
ER -