ROC-1: hardware support for recovery-oriented computing

Author

Oppenheimer, David ; Brown, Aaron ; Beck, James ; Hettena, Daniel ; Kuroda, Jon ; Treuhaft, N. ; Patterson, David A. ; Yelick, Katherine

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA

Volume

51

Issue

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

100

Lastpage

107

Abstract

We introduce the ROC-1 hardware platform, a large-scale cluster system designed to provide high availability for Internet service applications. The ROC-1 prototype embodies our philosophy of recovery-oriented computing (ROC) by emphasizing detection and recovery from the failures that inevitably occur in Internet service environments, rather than simple avoidance of such failures. ROC-1 promises greater availability than existing server systems by incorporating four techniques applied from the ground up to both hardware and software: redundancy and isolation, online self-testing and verification, support for problem diagnosis and concern for human interaction with the system

Keywords

Internet; automatic testing; fault diagnosis; fault tolerant computing; redundancy; system recovery; user interfaces; workstation clusters; Internet service application availability; ROC-1 hardware platform; computer network management; failure detection; failure recovery; fault diagnosis; fault tolerance; human-system interaction; isolation; large-scale cluster system; network server systems; online self-testing; online verification; problem diagnosis; recovery-oriented computing; redundancy; software; Availability; Built-in self-test; Ground support; Hardware; Humans; Large-scale systems; Prototypes; Web and internet services; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computers, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9340

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/12.980002

Filename

980002