SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback

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2006
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Abstract - SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback

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September/October 2006 (vol. 26 no. 5)

pp. 28-40

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	Radu Teodorescu, Jun Nakano, Josep Torrellas, "SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback," IEEE Micro, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 28-40, September/October, 2006.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MM.2006.100, author = {Radu Teodorescu and Jun Nakano and Josep Torrellas}, title = {SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback}, journal ={IEEE Micro}, volume = {26}, number = {5}, issn = {0272-1732}, year = {2006}, pages = {28-40}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2006.100}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Micro TI - SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback IS - 5 SN - 0272-1732 SP28 EP40 EPD - 28-40 A1 - Radu Teodorescu, A1 - Jun Nakano, A1 - Josep Torrellas, PY - 2006 KW - transient faults KW - low-overhead checkpointing KW - hardware prototype VL - 26 JA - IEEE Micro ER -

Radu Teodorescu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jun Nakano, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2006.100

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.

Index Terms:

transient faults, low-overhead checkpointing, hardware prototype

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Radu Teodorescu, Jun Nakano, Josep Torrellas, "SWICH: A Prototype for Efficient Cache-Level Checkpointing and Rollback," IEEE Micro, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 28-40, Sep./Oct. 2006, doi:10.1109/MM.2006.100

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