Title :
Toward systematic design of fault-tolerant systems
Author :
Avizienis, Algirdas
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
fDate :
4/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
After 30 years of study and practice in fault tolerance, high-confidence computing remains a costly privilege of several critical applications. It is time to explore ways to deliver high-confidence computing to all users. The speed of computing will ultimately be limited by the laws of physics, but the demand for affordable high-confidence computing will continue as long as people use computers to enhance the quality of their lives. Eventually, one enterprising chip builder will deliver the first fault-tolerant microprocessor at a competitive price, and soon thereafter fault tolerance will be considered as indispensable to computers as immunity is to humans. The remaining manufacturers will follow suit or go the way of the dinosaurs. Once again, Darwin will be proven right
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; microprocessor chips; technological forecasting; chip manufacturers; competitive price; computing speed; critical applications; fault-tolerant microprocessors; fault-tolerant systems; high-confidence computing; quality of life; systematic design; ubiquitous computing; Computer errors; Concurrent computing; Error correction codes; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Laboratories; NASA; Rails; Reliability engineering; Space vehicles;
