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Provision of Fault Tolerance With Grid-Enabled and SLA-Aware Resource Management Systems
White Papers This paper presents the EU-funded project HPC4U (Highly Predictable Clusters for Internet Grids), which aims at realizing such an RMS by means of SLA-negotiation and SLA-aware scheduling, and application-transparent fault tolerance.
[September 11, 2008, 1:01]
A Container-Based Approach to Fault Tolerance in Service-Oriented Architectures
White Papers These 'contain' externally provided services and in doing so add fault tolerance to them. This is achieved by allowing the container to be configured with a policy which specifies what kind of fault tolerance mechanisms may be applied to the...
[November 18, 2008, 0:00]
Fault Tolerance Management for a Hierarchical GridRPC Middleware
White Papers This paper aims at adapting to these novelties by providing the first implementation and evaluation in a grid system of the optimal fault detector, a novel and simple checkpoint API allowing to manage both service provided checkpoint and automatic...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
HP adds fault tolerance to blades
News HP has added to its family of c-Class blade servers with the launch of its first fault-tolerant blade server for high-availability systems. Fault-tolerant systems usually carry a high-price tag, and the HP Integrity NonStop is no exception.
[June 17, 2008, 15:45]
NEC and Stratus launch quad-core fault tolerance
News Stratus is labelling its latest server, the ftServer 6200, as "the most powerful Intel processor-based, fault-tolerant server for Windows or Linux" enterprise systems. The two companies are pooling their respective technologies, with NEC supplying...
[March 26, 2007, 17:04]
Microarchitecture-Based Introspection: A Technique for Transient-Fault Tolerance in Microprocessors
White Papers This paper proposes Microarchitecture-Based Introspection (MBI), a transient-fault detection technique, which utilizes the wasted processing bandwidth during long-latency cache misses for redundant execution of the instruction stream.
[May 8, 2007, 1:00]
Framework for Testing the Fault-Tolerance of Systems Including OS and Network Aspects
White Papers The system under test as well as the fault- and workload run on this system are configurable. A second process paired with each virtual machine is used for fault injection. This paper presents an extensible framework for testing the behavior of...
[April 19, 2007, 1:00]
MSDN Webcast: High Availability, Fault Tolerance and Scalability With BizTalk Server 2006 (Level 200)
White Papers The mechanics of the core messaging engine in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 afford the benefits of a cluster without the constraint of hardware affinity, eliminating the need to use identical hardware for every server of your BizTalk farm.
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Resource-Aware Deployment and Configuration of QoS-Enabled Middleware
White Papers Ad hoc Deployment and Configuration (D&C) of fault-tolerance mechanisms can lead to unacceptable response times, overloads, and low-availability for soft real-time applications. This paper describes how the Quality-of-Service (QoS)-enabled...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
TCP/IP Ethernet Failover Explained
White Papers The HP TCP/IP product, NonStop TCP/IPv6 Software, provides increased throughput, improved fault tolerance, lower CPU utilization, and better scalability for mission-critical, enterprise-class applications than conventional TCP/IP.
[March 3, 2006, 0:01]
Fault-tolerant systems get cheaper
News Fault tolerance has so far been an expensive option reserved for high-risk businesses such as financial services and telecoms, but users throughout industry are depending more and more on applications like email, running on fallible Windows/Intel...
[March 4, 2003, 8:49]
Build Your Own Oracle RAC 10g Release 2 Cluster on Linux and FireWire
White Papers There's no better way to understand its benefits - including fault tolerance, security, load balancing, and scalability - than to experience them directly. It provides fault tolerance, load balancing, and performance benefits by allowing the system...
[October 11, 2006, 1:00]
Understanding XP kernel enhancements
News Improved fault tolerance Several of Windows XP's new kernel features support increased fault tolerance. Along with reliability, fault tolerance is an essential component for any mission-critical computer.
[June 11, 2002, 14:47]
Cluster aware WINS and DHCP
News The traditional advice for running two DHCP servers for fault tolerance is to use the 80/20 split scope. But for fault tolerance, consider clustering WINS rather than using a bunch of servers to provide high availability.
[October 22, 2002, 13:47]
VMware adds Linux, iPhone to virtualisation mix
News In his speech, Herrod also introduced VMware Fault Tolerance, which is an add-on for VirtualCenter that will maintain a replica of a virtual machine, hosted on a second ESX Server system. VirtualCenter would then automatically create an additional...
[September 18, 2008, 13:42]
Dual NICs for niftier networking
News Another similar hardware-specific solution is Cisco Fast EtherChannel, which provides fault tolerance and load balancing between switches, routers, and servers. Intel, for example, offers a teaming utility for its Pro 100 Intelligent Server adapter...
[July 23, 2002, 8:32]
Irish start-up picks up where Sun left off
News Murray said a regular installation would involve two S1000s to provide fault tolerance if one fails, but noted that Internet Service Providers will be able to spread the cost across as many as 20 sites, offering fault tolerance as an extra service...
[February 13, 2002, 10:53]
VMware aims for datacentre unity
Blog High availability and fault tolerance are key to peace of mind if a virtual environment is to replace a physical one. Very hard to do", was how Garsthagen described the company's effort to develop vSphere's fault tolerance feature, available only...
[June 1, 2009, 16:34]
Tackling VoIP security concerns
News Redundancy for fault tolerance Your best bet in providing fault tolerance for any type of data, including voice, is redundancy. Of course, the traditional telephone network (public switched telephone network, or PSTN) is not invulnerable to...
[September 27, 2006, 15:10]
Hitachi SMS100 review
Reviews RAID 6 is used to provide a high level of fault tolerance. Rather than being overkill, RAID6 is used to maintain fault tolerance while the array completes this process. A unit with more than two failed disk drives or another hardware fault would...
[September 5, 2008, 14:45]
