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ICDCS
2012
IEEE
12 years 1 months ago
Combining Partial Redundancy and Checkpointing for HPC
Today’s largest High Performance Computing (HPC) systems exceed one Petaflops (1015 floating point operations per second) and exascale systems are projected within seven years...
James Elliott, Kishor Kharbas, David Fiala, Frank ...
DSN
2011
IEEE
12 years 11 months ago
Modeling stream processing applications for dependability evaluation
— This paper describes a modeling framework for evaluating the impact of faults on the output of streaming ions. Our model is based on three abstractions: stream operators, strea...
Gabriela Jacques-Silva, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Bugra...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
267views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
13 years 2 months ago
A latency and fault-tolerance optimizer for online parallel query plans
We address the problem of making online, parallel query plans fault-tolerant: i.e., provide intra-query fault-tolerance without blocking. We develop an approach that not only achi...
Prasang Upadhyaya, YongChul Kwon, Magdalena Balazi...
ICDCSW
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Middleware Support for Agent-Based Application Mobility in Pervasive Environments
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...
Yu Zhou, Jiannong Cao, Vaskar Raychoudhury, Joanna...
COMPSAC
2004
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Component Failure Mitigation According to Failure Type
Off-The-Shelf (OTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use these untrustworthy components with confidence, it is necessary...
Fan Ye, Tim Kelly
DATE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Analysis and optimization of fault-tolerant embedded systems with hardened processors
1 In this paper we propose an approach to the design optimization of fault-tolerant hard real-time embedded systems, which combines hardware and software fault tolerance techniques...
Viacheslav Izosimov, Ilia Polian, Paul Pop, Petru ...
IFIP
1989
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Software Fault Tolerance
The designation “fault tolerant software” has been used for techniques ranging from roll-back and retry to N-version programming, from data mirroring to functional redundancy....
Algirdas Avizienis
WOSS
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Design of self-managing dependable systems with UML and fault tolerance patterns
The development of dependable software systems is a costly undertaking. Fault tolerance techniques as well as self-repair capabilities usually result in additional system complexi...
Matthias Tichy, Daniela Schilling, Holger Giese
ICCD
2003
IEEE
143views Hardware» more  ICCD 2003»
14 years 8 months ago
Cost-Effective Graceful Degradation in Speculative Processor Subsystems: The Branch Prediction Case
We analyze the effect of errors in branch predictors, a representative example of speculative processor subsystems, to motivate the necessity for fault tolerance in such subsystem...
Sobeeh Almukhaizim, Thomas Verdel, Yiorgos Makris