Fault tolerance

The current trends in technology, fabrication processes, and computing architectures are increasingly pushing towards the design and development of multi-core and many-core systems constituted by a relevant number of relatively low-cost execution resources (e.g., processors and configurable accelerator units) to achieve high performance while leveraging on energy consumption. These trends must cope with increasingly unreliable devices, affected by the shrinking of component size, variations in the manufacturing process, and increased transient errors caused by radiations and noise fluctuations.