TRUSS Paper Selected for Special Issue of IEEE Micro
October 9, 2004
"Fingerprinting: Bounding Soft-Error Latency and Bandwidth," a flagship paper from the Total Reliability Using Scalable Servers (TRUSS) project in the Computer Architecture Lab at Carnegie Mellon (CALCM) was presented at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) in Boston on October 9-13, and will appear in IEEE Micro's special year-end issue, Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences. The edition will be released in November/December.
A committee of industrial researchers and experts chose only nine manuscripts for the computer hardware periodical from a select group of architecture conferences in 2004, including ASPLOS, the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), and the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). Co-authors of the paper are ECE graduate students Jared Smolens, Brian Gold, and Jangwoo Kim, and faculty Babak Falsafi, James Hoe, and Andreas Nowatzyk.
TRUSS proposes non-stop server architectures built from commodity desktops that have no single point of failure in the hardware.
Other ECE affiliated participants in the ASPLOS 2004 conference included faculty members Greg Ganger, Seth Copen Goldstein, and Todd Mowry, and graduate students Christopher Lumb and Girish Venkataraman.
Fingerprinting greatly reduces interprocessor communication bandwidth.