Architectural Risk

Designing a system involves taking on risk that a design will fail to meet its performance goals. While risk assessment and management are typically treated as independent to questions of performance, they are more tightly linked than one might expect. A risk-minimizing and performance-optimizing de...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE MICRO 2018-05, Vol.38 (3), p.116-125
Main Authors: Cui, Weilong, Sherwood, Timothy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
architecture modelling
Computer architecture
core selection
Design optimization
hardware
Mathematical model
Monte Carlo methods
Performance evaluation
random variable
Risk assessment
Transistors
uncertainty
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Designing a system involves taking on risk that a design will fail to meet its performance goals. While risk assessment and management are typically treated as independent to questions of performance, they are more tightly linked than one might expect. A risk-minimizing and performance-optimizing design might not be the same, and new techniques to help make smarter choices between the two are needed. Surprisingly, even simple performance/risk tradeoffs are nearly impossible to reason about with intuition alone.
ISSN:0272-1732
1937-4143
DOI:10.1109/MM.2018.032271068