The Path to Exascale
Daniel Oliveira, Laércio Lima Pilla, Caio Lunardi, Luigi Carro, Philippe O. A. Navaux, Paolo Rech · 2015
Graphics Processing Units are nowadays the most common general-purpose computing accelerators employed in High Performance Computing (HPC) systems. The performance and energy efficiency of such devices enables extremely powerful HPC systems to be built. However, as the machine scale increases, the reliability problem increases as well, with failures on an exascale system expected to occur every few hours.