A Summary of Fault Tolerant Computing Research at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Abstract

Spurred by increased system complexity, critical application areas, and increased personnel costs, fault tolerant computing systems are rapidly becoming desirable if not necessary. This report summarizes the accomplishments of the past five years in: data collection on hard and transient faults from a variety of systems including Cm* (a 50 processor multiprocessor), PDP-10 timesharing systems, VAX-11 timesharing systems. C.mmp (a 16 processor multiprocessor), and C.vmp (a triplicated multiprocessor); modeling; experimentation; tools and techniques; and architecture. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA142707

Entities

People

  • D. P. Siewiorek

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Fault Tolerant Computing
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Mathematical Models
  • Multiprocessors
  • Operating Systems
  • Probability
  • Reliability
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Tests

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.