Soviet Progress in the Design of Fault-Tolerant Digital Machines

This paper is a survey of the open Soviet literature in the technical areas relevant to the design of complex digital systems that must exhibit a high degree of reliability. Particular emphasis is on the various techniques for the constructive application of redundancy in order to achieve the reliability necessary for the successful realization of machines of high computational power and high availability. Overall conclusions are drawn regarding the nature and significance of Soviet activities in these fields. The rather extensive bibliography upon which these observations are based is included as a stimulus and aid in further research and inquiry into the results already available in these technical areas.