Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors: Some Ideas to Make them Reliable

Michel Banâtre (1) , Alain Gefflaut (1) , Christine Morin (1)

1 LSP - Langages et Systèmes Parallèles

Scalable shared memory multiprocessors are promising architectures to achieve teraflops computational power. As they contain a large number of processor and memory elements, such machines have a high probability of failure. In this paper, we investigate an approach based on backward error recovery to provide a highly available scalable shared memory architecture tolerating transient and permanent processor and memory failures.

Domaines: Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]

Michel Banâtre, Alain Gefflaut, Christine Morin. Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors: Some Ideas to Make them Reliable. Proceedings of the Workshop on Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance: Perpectives and Towards a Synthesis, 1993, Le Mont Saint-Michel, France. ⟨hal-01275700⟩