Andrew Walton | Searcharxiv

arXiv2024

Corrigendum to: A Systematic Study of DDR4 DRAM Faults in the Field

This paper is a corrigendum to the paper by Beigi et al. published at HPCA 2023 https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCA56546.2023.10071066. The HPCA paper presented a detailed field data analysis of faults observed at scale in DDR4 DRAM from two different memory vendors. This analysis included a breakdown of fault patterns or modes. Upon further study of the data, we found a bug in how we decoded errors based on the logged row-bank-column address. Specifically, we found that some errors that occurred in one column were mis-interpreted as occurring in two non-adjacent columns. As a result of this, some single-bit faults were misclassified as partial-row faults (i.e., two-bit faults). Similarly, some single-column faults were misclassified as two-column faults. The result of these misclassification errors is that the proportion of single-bit faults is higher than reported in the paper, with a commensurate reduction in the fraction of certain types of multi-bit faults. These misclassifications also slightly change the Failure In Time (FIT) per DRAM device values presented in the original paper. In this corrigendum, we provide an updated version of the relevant tables and figures and point out the corresponding page numbers and references in the original paper that they replace.

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arXiv1997

A collaborative theoretical and experimental study of the structure and electronic excitation spectrum of the BAr and B(Ar)2 complexes

We report the investigation of the 3s <- 2p transition in the BAr2 cluster. In a supersonic expansion of B atoms entrained in Ar, at high beam source backing pressures we observe several features in the fluorescence excitation spectrum which cannot be assigned to the BAr diatom. Using BAr(X, B) potential energy curves which reproduce our experimental observations on this molecule and an Ar-Ar interaction potential, we employ a pairwise additive model, along with variational and diffusion Monte-Carlo treatments of the nuclear motion, to determine the lowest vibrational state of the BAr2 cluster. A subsequent simulation of the fluorescence excitation spectrum reproduces nearly quantitatively the strongest feature in our experimental spectrum not assignable to BAr. Because of the barrier in the BAr(B 2Sigma+) potential energy curve, the 3s <- 2p transition in the BAr2 cluster is predicted to have an asymmetric profile, as is found experimentally.

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