Title :
SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback
Author :
Teodorescu, Radu ; Nakano, Jun ; Torrellas, Josep
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL
Abstract :
Existing cache-level checkpointing schemes do not continuously support a large rollback window. Immediately after a checkpoint, the number of instructions that the processor can undo falls to zero. To address this problem, we introduce Swich, an FPGA-based prototype of a new cache-level scheme that keeps two live checkpoints at all times, forming a sliding rollback window that maintains a large minimum and average length
Keywords :
cache storage; checkpointing; computer architecture; field programmable gate arrays; shared memory systems; Swich FPGA-based prototype; cache-level checkpointing schemes; processor microarchitecture; sliding rollback window; Bit error rate; Cache memory; Checkpointing; Fault detection; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Microarchitecture; Prototypes; Registers; Taxonomy; hardware prototype; low-overhead checkpointing; transient faults;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MM.2006.100
