system fault tolerance
11fault tolerant — UK US (also fault tolerant) adjective ► relating to a computer system that continues working even when there is something wrong with the hardware or software: » a fault tolerant processing system fault tolerance noun [U] …
12Fault-tolerant system — This article contains specific implementations of fault tolerant systems. For general theory, see fault tolerant design. Fault tolerance or graceful degradation is the property that enables a system (often computer based) to continue operating… …
13Fault-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… …
14Fault-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… …
15Fault injection — In software testing, fault injection is a technique for improving the coverage of a test by introducing faults in order to test code paths, in particular error handling code paths, that might otherwise rarely be followed. It is often used with… …
16fault-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 …
17Distributed operating system — A distributed operating system is the logical aggregation of operating system software over a collection of independent, networked, communicating, and spatially disseminated computational nodes.[1] Individual system nodes each hold a discrete… …
18Moose File System — Developer(s) Gemius SA Stable release 1.6.20 / January 17, 2011; 9 months ago (2011 01 17) …
19Domain Name System — The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the… …
20Intrusion Tolerance — is a Fault tolerant design approach to defending information systems against malicious attack. Abandoning the conventional aim of preventing all intrusions, intrusion tolerance instead calls for triggering mechanisms that prevent intrusions from… …
