Although molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of biomolecular systems often run for days to
months, many events of great scientific interest and pharmaceutical relevance occur on long …

We present here a report produced by a workshop on 'Addressing failures in exascale
computing'held in Park City, Utah, 4–11 August 2012. The charter of this workshop was to …

Energy harvesting has been widely investigated as a promising method of providing power
for ultra-low-power applications. Such energy sources include solar energy, radio-frequency …

Deterministic replay is a type of emerging technique dedicated to providing deterministic
executions of computer programs in the presence of nondeterministic factors. The …

Emerging byte-addressable nonvolatile memories (NVMs) promise persistent memory,
which allows processors to directly access persistent data in main memory. Yet, persistent …

Exponential growth in the number of on-chip transistors, coupled with reductions in voltage
levels, makes each generation of microprocessors increasingly vulnerable to transient faults …

Architecture Design for Soft Errors provides a comprehensive description of the architectural
techniques to tackle the soft error problem. It covers the new methodologies for quantitative …

DMTCP (distributed multithreaded checkpointing) is a transparent user-level checkpointing
package for distributed applications. Checkpointing and restart is demonstrated for a wide …

Debuggers have been proven indispensable in improving software reliability. Unfortunately,
on most real-life software, debuggers fail to deliver their most essential feature---a faithful …

Significant time is spent by companies trying to reproduce and fix the bugs that occur for
released code. To assist developers, we propose the BugNet architecture to continuously …