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Investigating Memory Failure Prediction Across CPU Architectures

Hardware Architecture 2024-12-17 v1 Artificial Intelligence Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Abstract

Large-scale datacenters often experience memory failures, where Uncorrectable Errors (UEs) highlight critical malfunction in Dual Inline Memory Modules (DIMMs). Existing approaches primarily utilize Correctable Errors (CEs) to predict UEs, yet they typically neglect how these errors vary between different CPU architectures, especially in terms of Error Correction Code (ECC) applicability. In this paper, we investigate the correlation between CEs and UEs across different CPU architectures, including X86 and ARM. Our analysis identifies unique patterns of memory failure associated with each processor platform. Leveraging Machine Learning (ML) techniques on production datasets, we conduct the memory failure prediction in different processors' platforms, achieving up to 15% improvements in F1-score compared to the existing algorithm. Finally, an MLOps (Machine Learning Operations) framework is provided to consistently improve the failure prediction in the production environment.

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@article{arxiv.2406.05354,
  title  = {Investigating Memory Failure Prediction Across CPU Architectures},
  author = {Qiao Yu and Wengui Zhang and Min Zhou and Jialiang Yu and Zhenli Sheng and Jasmin Bogatinovski and Jorge Cardoso and Odej Kao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05354},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted by 2024 54th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Industry Track

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