Open AccessAnalyzing the instructions vulnerability of dense convolutional network on GPUS
Author(s) -
Khalid Adam,
Izzeldin I. Mohd,
Yusuf Ibrahim
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of power electronics and drive systems/international journal of electrical and computer engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2722-2578
pISSN - 2722-256X
DOI - 10.11591/ijece.v11i5.pp4481-4488
Subject(s) - computer science , vulnerability (computing) , convolutional neural network , reliability (semiconductor) , soft error , cuda , computation , graphics , fault injection , parallel computing , embedded system , computer engineering , artificial intelligence , computer security , algorithm , operating system , software , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , electronic engineering , engineering
Recently, deep neural networks (DNNs) have been increasingly deployed in various healthcare applications, which are considered safety-critical applications. Thus, the reliability of these DNN models should be remarkably high, because even a small error in healthcare applications can lead to injury or death. Due to the high computations of the DNN models, DNNs are often executed on the graphics processing units (GPUs). However, the GPUs have been reportedly impacted by soft errors, which are extremely serious issues in the healthcare applications. In this paper, we show how the fault injection can provide a deeper understanding of DenseNet201 model instructions vulnerability on the GPU. Then, we analyze vulnerable instructions of the DenseNet201 on the GPU. Our results show that the most significant vulnerable instructions against soft errors PR, STORE, FADD, FFMA, SETP and LD can be reduced from 4.42% to 0.14% of injected faults, after we applied our mitigation strategy.