George-Marios Fragkoulis

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · unresolved

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Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 since 2021Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper
Electronic design automation · 76% Hardware reliability and fault tolerance · 19% Performance modeling and evaluation · 6%

Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Electronic design automation › hardware verification and test › test generation › functional test generation
constrained-random test generation
0.812024
Harpocrates: Breaking the Silence of CPU Faults through Hardware-in-the-Loop Program Generation · ISCA 2024
Electronic design automation › hardware verification and test › test generation
functional test generation
0.812024
Harpocrates: Breaking the Silence of CPU Faults through Hardware-in-the-Loop Program Generation · ISCA 2024
Electronic design automation
hardware verification and test
0.812024
Harpocrates: Breaking the Silence of CPU Faults through Hardware-in-the-Loop Program Generation · ISCA 2024
Hardware reliability and fault tolerance › soft errors
silent data corruption
0.812024
Harpocrates: Breaking the Silence of CPU Faults through Hardware-in-the-Loop Program Generation · ISCA 2024
Electronic design automation › hardware verification and test
test generation
0.812024
Harpocrates: Breaking the Silence of CPU Faults through Hardware-in-the-Loop Program Generation · ISCA 2024
Performance modeling and evaluation › simulation › processor simulation
microarchitecture simulation
0.212024
Harpocrates: Breaking the Silence of CPU Faults through Hardware-in-the-Loop Program Generation · ISCA 2024

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

hardware-in-the-loop simulation · 0.8constrained-random program generation · 0.8
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2024 Harpocrates: Breaking the Silence of CPU Faults through Hardware-in-the-Loop Program Generation
abstract
Several hyperscalers have recently disclosed the occurrence of Silent Data Corruptions (SDCs) in their systems fleets, sparking concerns about the severity of known and the existence of unidentified root causes of faults in CPUs. These incidents reveal that CPU chips have the potential to generate incorrect results for different tasks due to latent manufacturing defects, variability, marginalities, bugs, and aging. To tackle this problem, we present Harpocrates, an automated methodology for the generation of short, constrained-random functional test programs that maximize fault detection in target CPU structures and can be employed at different stages of system lifetime. Harpocrates stands out by adopting a hardware-modelin-the-loop approach, which iteratively refines the generated test programs using a detailed simulation-based microarchitecture engine. The engine models and grades for multiple hardware fault types that can lead to data corruptions during system operation. Harpocrates is versatile and can adapt to various program generators, ISAs, microarchitectures, and fault types. Our results on six important CPU hardware structures show that Harpocrates attains much shorter test generation times than hardware-agnostic publicly available frameworks and outperforms open-source test suites in terms of fault detection capability.
Nikos Karystinos, Odysseas Chatzopoulos, George-Marios Fragkoulis, George Papadimitriou 0001, Dimitris Gizopoulos, Sudhanva Gurumurthi
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