CptS/EE 562: Fault Tolerant Computer Systems

Spring, 2004

Instructor: Dave Bakken

Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday 11-12 (when not sick or traveling), and by email appointment

Literature Survey Assignment is now available

Overview Material

• Syllabus
• Background reading: Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance: Concepts and Terminology, Jean-Claude Laprie, in Resilient Computing Systems, vol 2, Collins and Wiley, 1987.
• Background reading: Understanding Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems, Flaviu Cristian, Communications of the ACM, 34(2), February 1991, 56-78. (Caveat: 3MB .pdf)

Lecture Slides

• VR Chapter 6 slides (1-up, 4-up)
• VR Chapter 7 slides (1-up, 4-up)
• Spinglass paper
• Spinglass Slides (1-up, 4-up)
• MicroQoSCORBA
• Overview Slides (1-up, 4-up)
• Kevin MS Thesis Defense Slides (1-up, 4-up)
• Overview Paper
• Kevin MS Thesis
• Fault Tolerant MQC Paper (citation: )
• MQC Architectural slide ( .ppt); the Visio diagram does not display text in .pdf above, alas..
• Powell Replication Chapter (1-up, 4-up)