Publications

Publications in chronological order.

2024

  1. Reliability and Security of AI Hardware
    Dennis Gnad, Martin Gotthard, Jonas Krautter, and 11 more authors
    In 2024 IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), 2024
  2. Special Session: Reliability Assessment Recipes for DNN Accelerators
    Mohammad Hasan Ahmadilivani, Alberto Bosio, Bastien Deveautour, and 11 more authors
    In 2024 IEEE 42nd VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), 2024
  3. Cross-Layer Reliability Evaluation and Efficient Hardening of Large Vision Transformers Models
    Lucas Roquet, Fernando Santos, Paolo Rech, and 3 more authors
    In Design Automation Conference (DAC), Jun 2024
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  4. Transient Fault Tolerant Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving
    Leonardo Iurada, Niccolò Cavagnero, Fernando Santos, and 3 more authors
    In UNCV 2024 - 3rd Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification for Computer Vision, Sep 2024
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  5. Combining Fault Simulation and Beam Data for CNN Error Rate Estimation on RISC-V Commercial Platforms
    Fernando Fernandes Dos Santos, Marcello Traiola, and Angeliki Kritikakou
    In 2024 IEEE 30th International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), Sep 2024
  6. Can GPU performance increase faster than the code error rate?
    Fernando Fernandes Santos, and Paolo Rech
    The Journal of Supercomputing, Sep 2024
  7. Impact of High-Level Synthesis on Reliability of Artificial Neural Network Hardware Accelerators
    Marcello Traiola, Fernando Fernandes Santos, Paolo Rech, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Sep 2024
  8. Assessing the Impact of Compiler Optimizations on GPUs Reliability
    Fernando Fernandes dos Santos, Luigi Carro, Flavio Vella, and 1 more author
    ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim., Feb 2024

2023

  1. Understanding the Effects of Permanent Faults in GPU’s Parallelism Management and Control Units
    Juan David Guerrero Balaguera, Josie Esteban Rodriguez Condia, Fernando Santos, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Feb 2023
  2. Understanding and Improving GPUs’ Reliability Combining Beam Experiments with Fault Simulation
    Fernando Fernandes Santos, Luigi Carro, and Paolo Rech
    In 2023 IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), Feb 2023
  3. Reliability evaluation of Convolutional Neural Network’s basic operations on a RISC-V processor
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Angeliki Kritikakou, and Olivier Sentieys
    In NSREC 2023 - IEEE Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference, Jul 2023
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  4. Impact of High-Level-Synthesis on Reliability of Neural Network Hardware Accelerators
    Marcello Traiola, F. Fernandes dos Santos, Olivier Sentieys, and 1 more author
    In NSREC 2023 - IEEE Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference, Jul 2023
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  5. Understanding the Effects of Permanent Faults in GPU’s Parallelism Management and Control Units
    Juan-David Guerrero-Balaguera, Josie E. Rodriguez Condia, Fernando F. Santos, and 2 more authors
    In ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Nov 2023
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  6. Neutron-Induced Error Rate of Vision Transformer Models on GPUs
    Fernando Santos, Paolo Rech, Angeliki Kritikakou, and 1 more author
    In RADECS - RADiation and its Effects on Components and Systems Conference, Sep 2023
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2022

  1. Performance-Reliability Trade-Off in Graphics Processing Units
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, and Paolo Rech
    In RADiation Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), Oct 2022
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  2. Transient-Fault-Aware Design and Training to Enhance DNNs Reliability with Zero-Overhead
    Niccolò Cavagnero, F. Fernandes dos Santos, Marco Ciccone, and 3 more authors
    In 2022 IEEE 28th International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), Oct 2022
  3. Experimental evaluation of neutron-induced errors on a multicore RISC-V platform
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Angeliki Kritikakou, and Olivier Sentieys
    In 2022 IEEE 28th International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), Oct 2022
  4. Evaluating the Impact of Mixed-Precision on Fault Propagation for Deep Neural Networks on GPUs
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Paolo Rech, Angeliki Kritikakou, and 1 more author
    In 2022 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), Oct 2022
  5. A Multi-level Approach to Evaluate the Impact of GPU Permanent Faults on CNN’s Reliability
    Josie E. Rodriguez Condia, Juan-David Guerrero-Balaguera, F. Fernandes dos Santos, and 2 more authors
    In 2022 IEEE International Test Conference (ITC), Oct 2022
  6. Experimental Findings on the Sources of Detected Unrecoverable Errors in GPUs
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Sujit Malde, Carlo Cazzaniga, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Oct 2022
  7. An Effective Method to Identify Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities in GPUs
    Josie E. Rodriguez Condia, Paolo Rech, F. Fernandes dos Santos, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Device and Materials Reliability, Oct 2022
  8. Characterizing a Neutron-Induced Fault Model for Deep Neural Networks
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Angeliki Kritikakou, Condia Josie E. Rodriguez, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Oct 2022

2021

  1. Unveiling GPU Vulnerabilities: Comparing and Combining Beam, Fault Simulation, and Profiling
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Siva Kumar Sastry Hari, Pedro Martins Basso, and 2 more authors
    In 35th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS, May 2021
  2. Revealing GPUs Vulnerabilities by Combining Register-Transfer and Software-Level Fault Injection
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Josie E. Rodriguez Condia, Luigi Carro, and 2 more authors
    In 2021 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), May 2021
  3. Combining Architectural Simulation and Software Fault Injection for a Fast and Accurate CNNs Reliability Evaluation on GPUs
    Josie E. Rodriguez Condia, F. Fernandes dos Santos, Matteo Sonza Reorda, and 1 more author
    In 2021 IEEE 39th VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), May 2021
  4. Experimental Findings on the Sources of Detected Unrecoverable Errors in GPUs
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Sujit Malde, Carlo Cazzaniga, and 3 more authors
    In 2021 IEEE Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference, May 2021
  5. Protecting GPU’s Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities via Effective Selective Hardening
    Josie E. Rodriguez Condia, Paolo Rech, F. Fernandes dos Santos, and 2 more authors
    In 2021 IEEE 27th International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), May 2021
  6. Reduced Precision DWC: an Efficient Hardening Strategy for Mixed-Precision Architectures
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, M. Brandalero, M. Sullivan, and 5 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Computers, Feb 2021

2020

  1. Reduced-Precision DWC for Mixed-Precision GPUs
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, M. Brandalero, P. M. Basso, and 3 more authors
    In 2020 IEEE 26th International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), Feb 2020
  2. An Overview of the Risk Posed by Thermal Neutrons to the Reliability of Computing Devices
    D. Oliveira, S. Blanchard, N. DeBardeleben, and 8 more authors
    In 2020 50th Annual IEEE-IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks-Supplemental Volume (DSN-S), Feb 2020
  3. Thermal Neutrons: a Possible Threat for Supercomputers and Safety Critical Applications
    D. Oliveira, S. Blanchard, N. Debardeleben, and 7 more authors
    In 2020 IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), Feb 2020
  4. High-Energy vs. Thermal Neutron Contribution to Processor and Memory Error Rates
    D. Oliveira, F. Fernandes dos Santos, G. P. Davila, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2020
  5. Thermal neutrons: a possible threat for supercomputer reliability
    Daniel Oliveira, Sean Blanchard, Nathan DeBardeleben, and 9 more authors
    The Journal of Supercomputing, May 2020
  6. Impact of Tensor Cores and Mixed Precision on the Reliability of Matrix Multiplication in GPUs
    P. M. Basso, F. Fernandes dos Santos, and P. Rech
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, May 2020

2019

  1. Reliability Evaluation of Mixed-Precision Architectures
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, C. Lunardi, D. Oliveira, and 2 more authors
    In 2019 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2019
  2. Impact of Reduced Precision in the Reliability of Deep Neural Networks for Object Detection
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, P. Navaux, L. Carro, and 1 more author
    In 2019 IEEE European Test Symposium (ETS), May 2019
  3. Detecting Errors in Convolutional Neural Networks Using Inter Frame Spatio-Temporal Correlation
    L. K. Draghetti, F. Fernandes dos Santos, L. Carro, and 1 more author
    In 2019 IEEE 25th International Symposium on On-Line Testing and Robust System Design (IOLTS), Jul 2019
  4. Selective Fault Tolerance for Register Files of Graphics Processing Units
    Marcio Goncalves, F. Fernandes dos Santos, Ivan Lamb, and 2 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Jul 2019

2018

  1. Code-Dependent and Architecture-Dependent Reliability Behaviors
    V. Fratin, D. Oliveira, C. Lunardi, and 3 more authors
    In 2018 48th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Jun 2018
  2. Special session: How approximate computing impacts verification, test and reliability
    L. Sekanina, Z. Vasicek, A. Bosio, and 5 more authors
    In 2018 IEEE 36th VLSI Test Symposium (VTS), Apr 2018
  3. Analyzing and Increasing the Reliability of Convolutional Neural Networks on GPUs
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, P. F. Pimenta, C. Lunardi, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2018
  4. Kernel and Layer Vulnerability Factor to Evaluate Object Detection Reliability in GPUs
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Luigi Carro, and Paolo Rech
    IET Computers & Digital Techniques, Sep 2018

2017

  1. Kernel vulnerability factor and efficient hardening for histogram of oriented gradients
    L. Weigel, F. Fernandes dos Santos, P. Navaux, and 1 more author
    In 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT), Oct 2017
  2. Analyzing the Criticality of Transient Faults-induced SDCS on GPU Applications
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, and Paolo Rech
    In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems, Oct 2017
  3. Evaluation and Mitigation of Soft-Errors in Neural Network-Based Object Detection in Three GPU Architectures
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, L. Draghetti, L. Weigel, and 3 more authors
    In 2017 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), Jun 2017
  4. Radiation-Induced Error Criticality in Modern HPC Parallel Accelerators
    D. A. G. D. Oliveira, L. L. Pilla, M. Hanzich, and 7 more authors
    In 2017 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), Feb 2017

2016

  1. Radiation Sensitivity Evaluation of Pedestrian Detection Algorithm
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Lucas Weigel, Claudio Jung, and 3 more authors
    Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS), Sep 2016
  2. Input Size Effects on the Radiation-Sensitivity of Modern Parallel Processors
    D. Oliveira, L. Pilla, F. Fernandes dos Santos, and 5 more authors
    In 2016 IEEE Radiation Effects Data Workshop (REDW), Jul 2016
  3. Evaluation of Histogram of Oriented Gradients Soft Errors Criticality for Automotive Applications
    F. Fernandes dos Santos, Lucas Weigel, Claudio Jung, and 3 more authors
    ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim., Nov 2016
  4. Performance and energy efficiency analysis of HPC physics simulation applications in a cluster of ARM processors
    Jean Luca Bez, Eliezer E. Bernart, F. Fernandes dos Santos, and 2 more authors
    Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Nov 2016
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2015

  1. Análise da Eficiência Energética de uma Aplicaç ao HPC de Geofısica em um Cluster de Baixo Consumo
    Jean Luca Bez, Eliezer E Bernart, F. Fernandes dos Santos, and 2 more authors
    16th WSCAD - Simpósio em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho, Nov 2015