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CS 6183 Fault-Tolerant Computers

Description:

Introduces a variety of hardware and software techniques for designing and modeling fault-tolerant computers. Topics include coding techniques (Hamming, SECSED, SECDED, etc.); majority voting schemes (TMR); software redundancy (N-version programming); software recovery schemes; network reliability design and estimation. Introduces probabilistic methods for reliability modeling. Examples from space fault-tolerant systems, networks, commercial nonstop systems (TANDEM and STRATUS). RAID memory systems. Fault-tolerant modeling tools such as HARP, SHURE and SHARPE.

Credits: 3:0:0:3
Pre-Requisite: graduate standing
Co-Requisite: none
Notes: none

 
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