Print Email Facebook Twitter Heuristic Search for Defect Tolerant Multiprocessor Arrays Title Heuristic Search for Defect Tolerant Multiprocessor Arrays Author Vasilikos, V. Contributor Sourdis, I. (mentor) Strydis, C. (mentor) Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Computer Science and Engineering Programme Computer Engineering Date 2011-07-14 Abstract In this paper, new heuristic-search methods and algorithms are presented for enabling highly efficient and adaptive, defect-tolerant multiprocessor arrays. We consider systems where a homogeneous multiprocessor array lies on top of reconfigurable interconnects which allow the pipeline stages of the processors to be connected in all possible configurations. Considering the multiprocessor array partitioned in substitutable units at the granularity of pipeline stages, we employ a variety of heuristic-search methods and algorithms to isolate and replace defective units. The proposed heuristics are designed for off-line execution and aim at minimizing the performance overhead necessarily introduced to the array by the interconnects' latency. An empirical evaluation of the designed algorithms is then carried out, in order to assess the targeted problem and the efficacy of our approach. Our findings indicate this to be a NP-complete computational problem, however, our heuristic-search methods can achieve 100% accuracy in finding the optimal solution among 10^19 possible candidates within 2.5 seconds. Alternatively, they can provide near-optimal solutions at an accuracy which consistently exceeds 70% (compared to the optimal solution) in only 10^-4 seconds. Subject heuristic searchfault tolerancemultiprocessor array To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:6bd8fee2-806b-4a95-ac66-056348f8c36c Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2011 Vasilikos, V. Files PDF thesis.pdf 2.65 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:6bd8fee2-806b-4a95-ac66-056348f8c36c/datastream/OBJ/view