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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]
Scalable, Fault-Tolerant Management in a Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers This paper presents a novel architecture that leverages "Publish-subscribe" principles for enabling scalable and fault-tolerant management of a set of distributed entities. With the emergence of Service-based architectures, management of an...
[March 15, 2007, 0:00]
Fault-tolerant systems get cheaper
News For years, specialist "fault-tolerant" server makers have doubled up hardware to make servers more reliable. On 10 March, veteran fault-tolerant vendor Stratus will launch a rack-mounted, entry-level, fault-tolerant Intel server.
[March 4, 2003, 8:49]
Cern: Electrical fault caused LHC helium leak
News Cern has confirmed that an electrical fault was the cause of a liquid helium leak in its flagship particle accelerator. Robert Aymar, director general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern), told ZDNet.co.uk earlier this month...
[October 17, 2008, 16:13]
Data Mining Techniques for Building Fault-Proneness Models in Telecom Java Software
White Papers This paper describes a study performed in an industrial setting that attempts to build predictive models to identify parts of a Java system with a high probability of fault. The main focus of this paper is two-fold: use and compare many data mining...
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Ensuring Data Security & Consistency in FTIMA - A Fault Tolerant Infrastructure for Mobile Agents
White Papers Existing Fault Tolerance Infrastructure for Mobile Agents (FTIMA) provides a fault tolerant behavior in distributed transactions and uses multi-agent system for distributed transaction and processing.
[October 7, 2008, 1:01]
Compiler-Directed Program-Fault Coverage for Highly Available Java Internet Services
White Papers This paper presents a new approach that uses compiler-directed fault-injection for coverage testing of recovery code in Internet services to evaluate their robustness to operating system and I/O hardware faults.
[June 23, 2007, 1:00]
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]
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]
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]
Dell extends warranties after GPU fault
News Dell has added an extra year's warranty to an extensive range of its laptops, following the discovery of a fault in the Nvidia graphics-processing units in some of those machines. Nvidia revealed the fault — "arising from a weak die/packaging...
[August 19, 2008, 16:44]
Automatic fault finding
Blog A fault with a NAS device recently highlighted this for me in no uncertain terms. All too often a problem is easy to fix once it has been correctly diagnosed. The trouble is, it can sometimes take a disproportionate amount of time to identify the...
[September 22, 2008, 18:47]
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]
Bubbleboy virus is Microsoft's fault - Sophos
News But it is not Microsoft's fault that someone chose to write this virus. Shoddy work is responsible for the dangers presented by the new Bubbleboy virus, according to anti-virus company Sophos, which lays the blame at Microsoft's door.
[November 10, 1999, 13:46]
HP-UX 11i System Fault Management
White Papers This paper describes the key features of System Fault Management (SFM) and its use in the manageability domain. Enterprise servers have a growing demand for strong fault management capabilities to meet business needs for stringent and time...
[March 1, 2007, 0:00]
Create high-availability, fault-tolerant messaging architectures with Exchange 2003 clustering
White Papers Learn how you can use clustering in Exchange 2003 to create high-availability, fault-tolerant messaging architectures. This sample chapter, taken from Sams' Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Delta Guide explores some of the new clustering features and...
[May 18, 2006, 1:00]
Treo owners in the dark over screen fault
News However, Handspring -- which issued a warning on the problem via its support Web site -- would not say specifically which component is at fault or who its manufacturer is. Handspring's Treo 90 and Treo 270 handhelds may go dark on their new owners.
[July 24, 2002, 15:43]
Got Predictability?: Experiences With Fault-Tolerant Middleware
White Papers A particular category of COTS systems, Fault-Tolerant (FT) middleware, is used in critical enterprise and embedded applications where predictability is of paramount importance. Each team, starting from a common three-tier architecture...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
A Middleware for Constructing Highly Available, Fault Tolerant, and Attack Tolerant Services
White Papers This paper describes the design of a middleware that provides support for constructing highly available, secure, fault-tolerant, and attack-tolerant services. The central component of this middleware is a group communication service that comprises...
[January 3, 2009, 0:00]
Perfect fault free software: finally launched
Blog Finally, we can get our hands on a fault free piece of software that is guaranteed to work faultlessly for all perpetuity. In a shock press release this morning I learn that Perfect Programming Inc.has launched version 1.0 of its “Superb Software...
[April 1, 2008, 9:07]
