Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance: Experiences and Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Ram Chillarege (auth.), Michel Banâtre, Peter A. Lee (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 774
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Fault tolerance has been an active research area for many years. This volume presents papers from a workshop held in 1993 where a small number of key researchers and practitioners in the area met to discuss the experiences of industrial practitioners, to provide a perspective on the state of the art of fault tolerance research, to determine whether the subject is becoming mature, and to learn from the experiences so far in order to identify what might be important research topics for the coming years. The workshop provided a more intimate environment for discussions and presentations than usual at conferences. The papers in the volume were presented at the workshop, then updated and revised to reflect what was learned at the workshop.

✦ Table of Contents

Top five challenges facing the practice of fault-tolerance....Pages 1-12
Fault tolerance cost effectiveness....Pages 13-20
Fault tolerant applications systems; A requirements perspective....Pages 21-25
Scalable shared memory multiprocessors: Some ideas to make them reliable....Pages 27-44
Application of compiler-assisted rollback recovery to speculative execution repair....Pages 45-65
Fault tolerance: Why should I pay for it?....Pages 66-77
Stable disk — A fault-tolerant cached RAID subsystem....Pages 78-90
Simple design makes reliable computers....Pages 91-94
Roll-forward checkpointing schemes....Pages 95-116
Fault-tolerant architectures — Past, present and (?) future....Pages 117-121
A highly available application in the transis environment....Pages 123-139
Reliable enterprise computing systems....Pages 140-150
Fault tolerance for clusters of workstations....Pages 151-158
Two techniques for transient software error recovery....Pages 159-170
Software-faults: The remaining problem in fault tolerant systems?....Pages 171-181
Fault tolerance enablers in the CHORUS microkernel....Pages 182-190
A reliable client-server model on top of a micro-kernel....Pages 191-198
Distributed fault tolerance — Lessons learnt from Delta-4....Pages 199-217
Arjuna and Voltan: Case studies in building fault-tolerant distributed systems using standard components....Pages 218-226
Fault tolerant platforms for emerging telecommunications markets....Pages 227-236
Fault-tolerance in embedded real-time systems....Pages 237-249
The systematic design of large real-time systems or interface simplicity....Pages 250-262
Fault tolerance in embedded real-time systems: Importance and treatment of common mode failures....Pages 263-282
Highly-available data services for UNIX client-server networks: Why fault-tolerant hardware isn't the answer....Pages 283-304
The management of replicated data....Pages 305-311

✦ Subjects

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Operating Systems; Database Management; Data Storage Representation; Input/Output and Data Communications