Congratulations to William for his Paper “Lifetime Reliability Characterization and Management of Many-Core Processors” Selected as Best in Session at SRC TECHCON 2014

William Song took top honors in the System Design: Architectures and Thermal/Reliability Management Session at SRC TECHCON 2014. His paper, entitled “Lifetime Reliability Characterization and Management of Many-Core Processors,” represented the work of the Computer Architecture and Systems Laboratory, led by his Ph.D. advisor and ECE Professor Sudhakar Yalamanchili. Yalamanchili and ECE Associate Professor Saibal Mukhopadhyay were Song’s coauthors on the paper.

Song’s paper presents a characterization method for understanding how parallel applications create reliability variation in a multicore processor and how such variability is projected onto processor-level lifetime reliability. The key observation in Song’s paper leads to proposals for dynamic reliability management techniques that minimize the variance of reliability distribution on a multicore die and balance long term reliability-performance tradeoffs.

Congratulations to all the authors!