fault-tolerant operation

  • 1Fault-tolerant computer systems — are systems designed around the concepts of fault tolerance. In essence, they have to be able to keep working to a level of satisfaction in the presence of faults. Types of fault tolerance Most fault tolerant computer systems are designed to be… …

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  • 2Fault-tolerant design — In engineering, Fault tolerant design, also known as fail safe design, is a design that enables a system to continue operation, possibly at a reduced level (also known as graceful degradation), rather than failing completely, when some part of… …

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  • 3fault-tolerant — adjective Date: 1975 relating to or being a computer or program with a self contained backup system that allows continued operation when major components fail • fault tolerance noun …

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  • 4fault tolerance —    A design method that ensures continued system operation in the event of individual failures by providing redundant elements. At the component level, the design includes redundant chips and circuits and the capability to bypass faults… …

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  • 5Differential fault analysis — is a type of side channel attack in the field of cryptography, specifically cryptanalysis. The principle is to induce faults unexpected environmental conditions into cryptographic implementations, to reveal their internal states. For example, a… …

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  • 6High Redundancy Actuation — (HRA) is a new approach to fault tolerant control in the area of mechanical actuation. Overview The basic idea is to use a lot of small actuation elements, so that a fault of one element has only a minor effect on the overall system. This way, a… …

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  • 7RAID — This article is about the data storage technology. For other uses, see Raid (disambiguation). RAID, an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks),[1] is a storage… …

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  • 8Safety engineering — is an applied science strongly related to systems engineering and the subset System Safety Engineering. Safety engineering assures that a life critical system behaves as needed even when pieces fail.In the real world the term safety engineering… …

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  • 9State machine replication — Introduction from Schneider s 1990 survey: : Distributed software is often structured in terms of clients and services. Each service comprises one or more servers and exports operations that clients invoke by making requests. Although using a… …

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  • 10List of file systems — The following lists identify, characterize and link to more thorough information on computer file systems.Many older operating systems support only their one native file system, which does not bear any name apart from the name of the operating… …

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