We consider Parallel Random Access Machine (PRAM) which has some processors and memory cells faulty. The faults considered are static, i.e., once the machine starts to operate, the operational/faulty status of PRAM components does not change. We develop a deterministic simulation of a fully operational PRAM on a similar faulty machine which has constant fractions of faults among processors and memory cells. The simulating PRAM has n processors and m memory cells, and simulates a PRAM with n processors and a constant fraction of m memory cells. The simulation is in two phases: it starts with preprocessing, which is followed by the simulation proper performed in a step-by-step fashion. Preprocessing is performed in time O((nm+logn)logn). The slowdown of a step-by-step part of the simulation is O(logm).
@article{arxiv.1801.00237,
title = {Deterministic Computations on a PRAM with Static Processor and Memory Faults},
author = {Bogdan S. Chlebus and Leszek Gasieniec and Andrzej Pelc},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.00237},
year = {2018}
}