VERFE: FG-FERS: 14. Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance

Beschreibung

Although the basic reliability of hardware and software components has

improved over decades, their increasing number causes severe problems.

Moreover, in recent years it can be observed that in an increasing

number of devices, e.g. cars, digital components are integrated into

environments of other physical components. Here, the complexity and

number of interactions with these components creates problems with

regard to maintaining a dependable operation of the entire system in

case of faults or external disturbances.

While this is not a problem with microprocessors there, shrinking

feature sizes, higher complexity, lower voltages, and higher clock

frequencies increase the probability of design-, manufacturing-, and

operational faults, making fault tolerance techniques in general purpose

processors to be of crucial importance in the future. As simple

solutions (such as TMR) easily can get too expensive, the ability to

trade increased reliability against performance/power overhead will

become important, resulting in light-weight fault tolerance techniques

implemented in hardware, but controllable from higher software layers.

This workshop aims at presenting contributions and work-in-progress from

the research area of dependable and fault tolerant computing in order to

bring together scientists working in related fields.