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Abstract: An analysis of the failure statistics of a commercially available fault-tolerant system shows that administration and software are the major contributors to failure. Various approaches to software fault-tolerance are then discussed -- notably process-pairs, transactions and reliable storage. It is pointed out that faults in production software are often soft (transient) and that a transaction mechanism combined with persistent processpairs provides fault-tolerant execution -- the key to... (Update)
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Jim Gray. Why do computers stop and what can be done about it? In Proc. Fifth Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems, pages 3--12, 1986. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gray85why.html More
@inproceedings{ gray86why,
author = "Jim Gray",
title = "Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?",
booktitle = "Symposium on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems",
pages = "3-12",
year = "1986",
url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/gray85why.html" }
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