Gold, Brian T.Smolens, Jared C.Falsafi, BabakHoe, James C.2009-04-212009-04-212009-04-212006https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/37348Concerns over rising soft-error rates in processor logic has led to numerous proposals for error tolerance mechanisms. In this paper, we examine the role of soft-error containment in a shared memory multiprocessor. We study a range of design alternatives based on how far outside the processor core errors are allowed to propagate. We discuss tradeoffs in recovery complexity and error-free performance that arise from the choice of containment granularity.text::conference output::conference paper not in proceedings