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Details of the reliability and availability aspects of the thermoeconomic methodology presented in Part I (Olsommer et al., 1999) are given here in Part II of our series of two articles. These system details cannot be forgotten, particularly if the superco ...
Nowadays, networked computers are present in most aspects of everyday life. Moreover, essential parts of society come to depend on distributed systems formed of networked computers, thus making such systems secure and fault tolerant is a top priority. If t ...
Distributed dats bases and data replication are recognised today as an efficient way to increase availability and fiability in data bases. The problem of mutual co-herence of copies is however introduced. Updating data is to be done on all copies. The noti ...
Distributed computing is one of the major trends in the computer industry. As systems become more distributed, they also become more complex and have to deal with new kinds of problems, such as partial crashes and link failures. While many middleware archi ...
This paper presents the semi-passive replication technique -- a variant of passive replication -- that can be implemented in the asynchronous system model without requiring a membership service to agree on a primary. Passive replication is a popular replic ...
Replication is a key mechanism for developing fault-tolerant and highly available applications. In this paper, we present a replication framework for replicating CORBA objects, that combines the active and passive replication techniques. We show how we hav ...
We present ideas on how to structure software systems for high availability by considering MTTR/MTTF characteristics of components in addition to the traditional criteria, such as functionality or state sharing. Recursive restartability (RR), a recently pr ...
Recent work has shown the advantages of using persistent memory for transaction processing. In particular, the Vista transaction system uses recoverable memory to avoid disk I/O, thus improving performance by several orders of magnitude. In such a system, ...
The Swiss Exchange system (SWX system) was the first stock exchange system in service to be fully computerised. For high availability, the trading system is built as a replicated service based on Isis. For portability reasons, the SWX team has considered b ...
Distributed computing is one of the major trends in the computer industry. As systems become more distributed, they also become more complex and have to deal with new kinds of problems, such as partial crashes and link failures. To answer the growing deman ...
