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Automating Infrastructure and Operations Management with VMware
With VMware, virtualization tools come with a management system built in. Check out this webcast to learn more.
Sponsored by VMware Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800
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White Papers
Virtualization and Cloud Computing: Optimized Power, Cooling, and Management Maximizes Benefits
Jan 2012
IT virtualization, the engine behind cloud computing, can have significant consequences on the data center physical infrastructure (DCPI). Higher power densities that often result can challenge...
Provided by APC by Schneider Electric
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: High Availability, Fault Tolerance and Scalability With BizTalk Server 2006 (Level 200)
Mar 2006
The mechanics of the core messaging engine in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 afford the benefits of a cluster without the constraint of hardware affinity, eliminating the need to use identical...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Security in Cloud Computing
Oct 2011
Learn about how leading cloud solution providers are taking advantage of the advanced security technologies built into the latest generation of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers to...
Provided by Intel Corporation
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White Papers
Virtualization strategy for mid-sized businesses
Jun 2009
Virtualization of business applications allows IT operations in companies of all sizes to reduce costs, improve IT services and manage risk. The most dramatic cost savings are the result of...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
IBM System x: Enterprise Servers in the New Enterprise DataCenter
Jun 2009
Virtualization changes everything! Once you start to virtualize your servers and storage, you will find that you can enjoy a higher degree of server utilization and simpler, more comprehensive...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
Automated Energy Efficiency for the Intelligent Business
Jun 2009
Efficiency is emerging as a major tool to extend the life of existing data centers and ensure that new data centers will deliver the highest ROI. This whitepaper looks at how The Intel Xeon...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series - An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
Jun 2009
This paper looks at how, in many organizations, IT infrastructure has begun to constrain business efficiency and growth. However, IT infrastructure is actually limiting IT from investing in...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
NHLM Virtualisation
Jun 2009
This Intel whitepaper examines how server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data centre productivity in fundamental ways. It shows how you can consolidate multiple operating...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost
Jun 2009
This paper examines how Intel IT is standardizing on Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz) for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. The newest high-end...
Provided by Intel
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White Papers
Trend Watch: Mission Critcial x86
Jun 2009
This paper examines how, over the past several years, research has shown many organisation moving mission-critical systems onto x86 servers.
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2
Jun 2009
This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Virtual SMB Centre in a Box?
Jun 2009
What types of organizations have the most efficient IT operations? Data centers that provide highly available and resilient services with a minimum of human intervention and management? IT shops...
Provided by SAP
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White Papers
Context Information Based Fault Tolerant Technique in Mobile Grid
Mar 2008
Mobile grids extend the concepts of grid computing through performance improvement of mobile devices and the development of wireless communication and offer mobility to grid service user. But...
Provided by Korea University
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White Papers
Self-Healing Reconfigurable FPGA Based Fault Tolerant Security Model for Shared Internet Resources
Feb 2009
The Internet is a collection of shared resources. Basic services of information security include verification, preserving data integrity, providing non-repudiation and ensuring secrecy. Due to...
Provided by AFTEK
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White Papers
FTRH: Fault Tolerance Routing Algorithm for Hex-Cell Networks
Dec 2009
This paper describes a new fault tolerance routing algorithm for Hex-Cell networks. Hex-Cell is an interconnection network topology that employs an efficient routing algorithm and combines...
Provided by University of Jordan
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White Papers
Protecting Mission-Critical Workloads With VMware Fault Tolerance
May 2009
As server virtualization becomes commonplace in the enterprise, IT organizations are growing increasingly reliant on the associated virtualization benefits: higher server consolidation ratios,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Fast Memory State Synchronization for Virtualization-Based Fault Tolerance
Apr 2009
Virtualization provides the possibility of whole machine migration and thus enables a new form of fault tolerance that is completely transparent to applications and operating systems. While...
Provided by Symantec
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White Papers
VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance
Aug 2009
VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous availability to virtual machines, eliminating downtime and disruption - even in the event of a complete host failure. This paper gives a brief...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
VMware Fault Tolerance Recommendations and Considerations on VMware vSphere 4
Nov 2009
As dependencies on computing increase, ensuring that applications are highly available becomes more critical. Many enterprise hardware components have built-in redundancies, such as RAID storage,...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Enhanced Server Fault-Tolerance for Improved User Experience
Jun 2008
Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environment....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Case Studies
ConnectEast Drives Motorway Excellence With an HP Infrastructure
Nov 2009
Transport infrastructure developer ConnectEast Pty Ltd. financed, built, and now maintains and operates the $3.8 billion AUD ($2.78 billion USD) EastLink project, one of the busiest highways in...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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White Papers
STEWARD: Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication to Wide Area Networks
Nov 2007
This paper presents the first hierarchical Byzantine fault-tolerant replication architecture suitable to systems that span multiple wide area sites. The architecture confines the effects of any...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
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White Papers
The Design and Evaluation of a Practical System for Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machines
May 2010
The paper has implemented a commercial enterprise-grade system for providing fault-tolerant virtual machines, based on the approach of replicating the execution of a primary Virtual Machine (VM)...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerant and Reliable Computation in Cloud Computing
Aug 2010
Cloud computing, with its great potentials in low cost and on-demand services, is a promising computing platform for both commercial and non-commercial computation clients. In this work, the...
Provided by National Tsing Hua University
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Webcasts
Business Insights Webcast: Introduction to SQL Azure (Level 100)
Nov 2010
Microsoft SQL Azure Database is a cloud-based relational database service built on Microsoft SQL Server technologies. SQL Azure Database provides a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
EEO: An Efficient MDS-Like RAID-6 Code for Parallel Implementation
Mar 2010
In recent years, researchers have found that some XOR erasure codes lead to higher performance and better throughput in fault-tolerant distributed data storage applications. However, little...
Provided by Binghamton University
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White Papers
A Middleware Layer Mechanism for QoS Support in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2006
Wireless sensor networks need different satisfying Quality of Service (QoS) levels for their successful operation. Providing QoS support for wireless sensor networks at the middleware layer is a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Fault Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2010
In this paper, the authors address fault tolerance in wireless sensor networks. In order to make the presentation self-contained, the authors start by providing a short summary of sensor networks...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerant K-Fold Pivot Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Nov 2007
Selecting a small set of nodes called pivots, from all the nodes in a network and maintaining the routing infrastructure to and among each other can reduce routing overhead and excessive broadcast...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Secure and Fault-Tolerant Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2008
Event boundary detection is in and of itself a useful application in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Typically, it includes the detection of a large-scale spatial phenomenon such as the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Fault Tolerance for HPC With OpenVZ Virtualization by Lite Migration Toolkit
Dec 2010
The reliability of large-scale parallel jobs within a cluster or even across multi-clusters under the Grid or distributed computing environment is a long term issue due to its difficulties...
Provided by National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC)
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White Papers
Using Virtualization to Validate Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems
Nov 2010
Asynchronous events and complex system state distributed across independent nodes make exposure and diagnosis of flaws in distributed systems a challenge. The difficulties are exacerbated when the...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Creating Fault-Tolerant Xen Virtualization at the Network Adapter Layer
Feb 2007
Xen virtualization is an open source technology designed to securely host multiple virtual machines - also called domains - on a single physical system, helping increase server utilization through...
Provided by Dell
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White Papers
Adaptive Virtual Network Provisioning
Sep 2010
In the future, virtual networks will be allocated, maintained and managed much like clouds offering flexibility, extensibility and elasticity with resources acquired for a limited time and even on...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Improving Scalability and Fault Tolerance in an Application Management Infrastructure
Jun 2008
This paper explores the challenges associated with distributed application management in large-scale computing environments. In particular, the authors investigate several techniques for extending...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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White Papers
A Light-Weight Cache-Based Fault Detection and Checkpointing Scheme for MPSoCs Enabling Relaxed Execution Synchronization
Oct 2008
While technology advances have made MPSoCs a standard architecture for embedded systems, their applicability is increasingly being challenged by dramatic increases in the amount of device failures...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Reducing Overhead for Soft Error Coverage in High Availability Systems
Dec 2007
High reliability/availability systems typically use redundant computation and components to achieve detection, isolation and recovery from faults. Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) incorporate multiple...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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White Papers
Robust and Flexible Power-Proportional Storage
Jun 2010
Power-proportional cluster-based storage is an important component of an overall cloud computing infrastructure. With it, substantial subsets of nodes in the storage cluster can be turned off to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Achieving Power-Efficiency in Clusters Without Distributed File System Complexity
May 2010
Power-efficient operation is a desirable property, particularly for large clusters housed in datacenters. Recent work has advocated turning off entire nodes to achieve power-proportionality, but...
Provided by Georgia Tech
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White Papers
Multiple-Objective Metric for Placing Multiple Base Stations in Wireless Sensor Networks
Aug 2007
The placement of base stations in wireless sensor networks affects the coverage of sensor nodes, the tolerance against faults or attacks, the energy consumption and the congestion from...
Provided by Korea University
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White Papers
An Optimal RPC Based Approach to Increase Fault Tolerance in Wireless Ad-Hoc Network
Apr 2012
In wireless network, fault tolerant topology control is an important and a challenging task. The wireless nodes and links could experience frequent failures since, wireless networks are usually...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Error Detection & Correction in Wireless Sensor Networks by Using Residue Number Systems
Mar 2012
Wireless Sensor Networks have potential of significantly enhancing the people ability to monitor and interact with their physical environment. Realizing a fault tolerant operation is critical to...
Provided by mecs-press
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White Papers
Learning Process Behavior for Fault Detection
Jul 2011
Recently, there has been an increased interest in self-healing systems. These types of systems are able to cope with failures in the environment they execute and work continuously by taking...
Provided by World Scientific Publishing
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerance and Permutation Analysis of ASEN and Its Variant
Mar 2010
High performance computing systems can be designed using parallel processing. The effectiveness of these parallel systems rests primarily on the communication network linking processors and memory...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Introducing Faulttolerance and Responsiveness in Web Applications Using SREFTIA
Nov 2006
The authors present a framework for adding fault-tolerance and responsiveness to an existing web based application using transportable information agents. This framework is presented in a...
Provided by Pips Technology
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White Papers
Reliability Analysis of Multi Path Multistage Interconnection Networks
Feb 2012
As systems have grown more complex, the consequences on their reliable behavior have become severe in terms of cost, life, size, etc., and the interest in accessing system reliability and the need...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
Implementation of Fault Tolerance Algorithm to Restore Affected Nodes in Scheduling Clusters
Jan 2012
Due to the convergence of the networks, the top priority objective of researchers is to get the network fully connected. Several types of networks have been introduced and proposed to improve...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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White Papers
A Multiple Fault Tolerant Approach With Improved Performance in Cluster Computing
Apr 2011
In case of multiple node failures performance is very low as compare to single node failure. Failures of nodes in cluster computing can be tolerated by multiple fault tolerant computing. In this...
Provided by Journal of Computing
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White Papers
Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Deferred Update Replication
Jan 2011
Replication is a well-established approach to increasing database availability. Many database replication protocols have been proposed for the crash-stop failure model, in which servers fail...
Provided by University of Lugano
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White Papers
Scalable Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Storage
Apr 2011
Byzantine fault-tolerance is a fundamental requirement for many contemporary services. Shorter development cycles, bigger server exposure to attacks, and an inherently hostile network have...
Provided by University of Lugano
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White Papers
Byzantine Fault-Tolerance With Commutative Commands
Sep 2011
State machine replication is a popular approach to increasing the availability of computer services. While it has been largely studied in the presence of crash-stop failures and malicious...
Provided by University of Lugano
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White Papers
A Survey Using Constraints to Decision-Making for Fault Tolerance in Business Processes
Oct 2010
Sometimes the business processes do not work how it is expected. In these cases, a diagnosis process has to be executed to determine the responsible activity or activities of the fault in order to...
Provided by Universidad de Sevilla
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White Papers
Design and Performance Evaluation of a New Irregular Fault-Tolerant Multistage Interconnection Network
Mar 2012
Inter-connecting processors and linking them efficiently to the memory modules in a parallel computer is not an easy task. Hence, an interconnection network that provides the desired connectivity...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Graphical Model Based for Robust Fault Diagnosis
Mar 2012
In this paper, robust Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) design in nonlinear uncertain dynamic system, with chemical and thermodynamic phenomenon, is addressed. The methodology using a Bond Graph...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerant Distributed Reconnaissance
Oct 2010
This paper describes a method to efficiently canvass an area of interest using distributed sensing methods, assisted by fault-tolerant resource management. By implementing multiple aircraft in an...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Preference Location-Based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks
Dec 2011
Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) is a challenge due to the fact that the network graph is intermittently connected. However, routing benefits considerably if one can take advantage of...
Provided by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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White Papers
A Group-Based Data Transmission Algorithm in Delay Tolerant Sensor Networks
Feb 2012
This paper proposes an efficient data delivery algorithm called Group-based Data Transmission (GDT) for Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks (DTMSN). In GDT, the authors introduce the principle...
Provided by University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
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White Papers
An Overview of Checkpointing Techniques for Fault Tolerance in Distributed Computing Systems
Jan 2012
Checkpointing is an important feature in distributed computing systems. It gives fault tolerance without requiring additional efforts from the programmer. In order to provide fault tolerance for...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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White Papers
Variable Density Deployment and Topology Control for the Solution of the Sink-Hole Problem
Sep 2009
The use of mobile sensors is of great relevance to monitor critical areas where sensors cannot be deployed manually. The presence of data collector sinks causes increased energy depletion in their...
Provided by University of Rome
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White Papers
A Formal Method for Developing Provably Correct Fault-Tolerant Systems Using Partial Refinement and Composition
Aug 2009
It is widely agreed that building correct fault-tolerant systems is very difficult. To address this problem, this paper introduces a new model-based approach for developing masking fault-tolerant...
Provided by Naval Research Laboratory
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White Papers
Analyzing an Integrated Technique for the Software Requirements of a Safety Critical System Based on Software Inspection, Requirements Traceability and Fault Tolerance
Jun 2011
Requirement analysis is important for developing and implementing safety critical systems. The system identified is intended to reduce the risks and fulfils earlier discovered safety requirements....
Provided by VIT UNIVERSITY
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White Papers
CBFD: A Count-Based Fault Detection Scheme for Memory Arrays
Mar 2011
The performance-cost benefits enjoyed for decades due to the scaling of device area are challenged by power and reliability constraints. Fixed power envelopes and increases in static and dynamic...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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White Papers
K-Fault Tolerance of the Internet AS Graph
Apr 2011
Internet disruptions such as the Northeast Blackout and the Taiwan earthquake highlight the fragility of today's Internet. The authors' goal in this paper is to investigate the robustness of...
Provided by Reed Elsevier
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White Papers
Bio-Inspired Multi-Period Routing Algorithms in Delay Tolerant Networks
Aug 2011
In this paper, inspired by the impact of incubation period on epidemic dynamics, the authors present a class of routing algorithms for Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN) in which the copies or coded...
Provided by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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White Papers
Fault-Driven Re-Scheduling for Improving System-Level Fault Resilience
Oct 2007
The productivity of HPC system is determined not only by their performance, but also by their reliability. The conventional method to limit the impact of failures is check-pointing. However,...
Provided by Illinois Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerant Business Processes
Jul 2011
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm promotes the idea of assembling application components into a network of loosely coupled services. Web services are the most promising SOC-based...
Provided by Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
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White Papers
Dynamic Atomic Storage Without Consensus
Jun 2009
This paper deals with the emulation of atomic Read/Write (R/W) storage in dynamic asynchronous message passing systems. In static settings, it is well known that atomic R/W storage can be...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Reliability Analysis of a Fault Tolerant Switch
Jan 2012
This paper proposes an enhancement to the Tagle-Sharma network, a high performance self routing fault tolerant switch fabric which employs an enhanced scheme of the banyan network. The enhancement...
Provided by International Association of Computer Science & Information Technology (IACSIT)
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White Papers
TS-PVM: A Fault Tolerant PVM Extension for Real Time Applications
Oct 2009
In this paper, a fault tolerant extension of the de facto message passing system parallel virtual machine, TS- parallel virtual machine, is introduced. This extension enables real time...
Provided by Zarqa Private University
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White Papers
Fault Tolerance- Challenges, Techniques and Implementation in Cloud Computing
Jan 2012
Fault tolerance is a major concern to guarantee availability and reliability of critical services as well as application execution. In order to minimize failure impact on the system and...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
VLSI Realization of Artificial Neural Networks With Improved Fault Tolerance
Jun 2010
The feed forward neural network which is a model of the cerebral neural network has in-built fault tolerance. The conventional back-propagation algorithm reduces errors between the learning...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Dynamic Adaptation of Checkpoints and Rescheduling in Grid Computing
May 2010
Grid is a form distributed computing mainly to virtualilze and utilize geographically distributed idle resources. A grid is a distributed computational and storage environment often composed of...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Empirical Study of Least Sensitive FFANN for Weight- Stuck-at Zero Fault
May 2010
An important consideration for neural hardware is its sensitivity to input and weight errors. In this paper, an empirical study is performed to analyze the sensitivity of feed-forward neural...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Applications
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White Papers
Support Efficient and Fault-Tolerant Multicast in Bufferless Network-on-Chip
Nov 2011
In this paper, the authors propose three Deflection-Routing-based Multicast (DRM) schemes for a buffer-less NoC. The DRM scheme without packets replication (DRM noPR) sends multicast packet...
Provided by Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
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White Papers
Evaluation and Checkpointing of Fault Tolerant Mobile Agents Execution in Distributed Systems
Jul 2010
The reliable execution of a mobile agent is a very important design issue to build a mobile agent system and many fault-tolerant schemes have been proposed. Hence, in this paper, the authors...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Adaptive Fault Tolerant Routing in Interconnection Networks: A Review
Mar 2011
A multi-processor / computer systems are connected by varieties of interconnection networks. To enable any non-faulty component (Node / Link) to communicate with any other non-faulty component in...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Networking and Applications (IJANA)
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White Papers
Mobility Impact on Session Survivability Under the SHIM6 Protocol and Enhancement of Its Rehoming Procedure
Nov 2011
Multihoming is a solution that enables a fault-tolerant access to the Internet by configuring on each network entity several IP addresses associated with distinct ISPs. IPv6 natively allows...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Three Layered Hierarchical Fault Tolerance Protocol for Mobile Agent System
Jan 2011
A Mobile Agent (MA) is autonomous and identifiable software process that travel through a network of heterogeneous machine and act autonomously on behalf of user. Improving the survivability of MA...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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White Papers
Buffer Scheduling Policy for Opportunitic Networks
Jul 2011
In Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), the optimal use of buffer management polices can improve the network throughput. In this paper, the authors propose a buffer management strategy called as...
Provided by International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research
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White Papers
On Optimizing XOR-Based Codes for Fault-Tolerant Storage Applications
Apr 2007
For fault-tolerant storage applications, computation complexity is the key concern in choosing XOR-based codes. The authors observe that there is great benefit in computing Common Operations First...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
Virtualization strategy for mid-sized businesses
Jun 2009
Virtualization of business applications allows IT operations in companies of all sizes to reduce costs, improve IT services and manage risk. The most dramatic cost savings are the result of...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
IBM System x: Enterprise Servers in the New Enterprise DataCenter
Jun 2009
Virtualization changes everything! Once you start to virtualize your servers and storage, you will find that you can enjoy a higher degree of server utilization and simpler, more comprehensive...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Automated Energy Efficiency for the Intelligent Business
Jun 2009
Efficiency is emerging as a major tool to extend the life of existing data centers and ensure that new data centers will deliver the highest ROI. This whitepaper looks at how The Intel Xeon...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Intel® Xeon® Processor 5500 Series - An Intelligent Approach to IT Challenges
Jun 2009
This paper looks at how, in many organizations, IT infrastructure has begun to constrain business efficiency and growth. However, IT infrastructure is actually limiting IT from investing in...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
NHLM Virtualisation
Jun 2009
This Intel whitepaper examines how server virtualization is helping IT organizations improve data centre productivity in fundamental ways. It shows how you can consolidate multiple operating...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Selecting Server Processors to Reduce Total Cost
Jun 2009
This paper examines how Intel IT is standardizing on Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz) for two-socket servers for design computing and enterprise server virtualization. The newest high-end...
Provided by Intel
-
White Papers
Trend Watch: Mission Critcial x86
Jun 2009
This paper examines how, over the past several years, research has shown many organisation moving mission-critical systems onto x86 servers.
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware ESX Server on IBM System x3850/x3950 M2
Jun 2009
This whitepaper looks at how Virtualization is the concept of decoupling the hardware from the operating systems and applications. This can be implemented a number of ways as we will discuss, but...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Virtual SMB Centre in a Box?
Jun 2009
What types of organizations have the most efficient IT operations? Data centers that provide highly available and resilient services with a minimum of human intervention and management? IT shops...
Provided by SAP
-
White Papers
Context Information Based Fault Tolerant Technique in Mobile Grid
Mar 2008
Mobile grids extend the concepts of grid computing through performance improvement of mobile devices and the development of wireless communication and offer mobility to grid service user. But...
Provided by Korea University
-
White Papers
Self-Healing Reconfigurable FPGA Based Fault Tolerant Security Model for Shared Internet Resources
Feb 2009
The Internet is a collection of shared resources. Basic services of information security include verification, preserving data integrity, providing non-repudiation and ensuring secrecy. Due to...
Provided by AFTEK
-
White Papers
FTRH: Fault Tolerance Routing Algorithm for Hex-Cell Networks
Dec 2009
This paper describes a new fault tolerance routing algorithm for Hex-Cell networks. Hex-Cell is an interconnection network topology that employs an efficient routing algorithm and combines...
Provided by University of Jordan
-
White Papers
Protecting Mission-Critical Workloads With VMware Fault Tolerance
May 2009
As server virtualization becomes commonplace in the enterprise, IT organizations are growing increasingly reliant on the associated virtualization benefits: higher server consolidation ratios,...
Provided by VMware
-
White Papers
Fast Memory State Synchronization for Virtualization-Based Fault Tolerance
Apr 2009
Virtualization provides the possibility of whole machine migration and thus enables a new form of fault tolerance that is completely transparent to applications and operating systems. While...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
VMware vSphere 4 Fault Tolerance: Architecture and Performance
Aug 2009
VMware Fault Tolerance (FT) provides continuous availability to virtual machines, eliminating downtime and disruption - even in the event of a complete host failure. This paper gives a brief...
Provided by VMware
-
White Papers
VMware Fault Tolerance Recommendations and Considerations on VMware vSphere 4
Nov 2009
As dependencies on computing increase, ensuring that applications are highly available becomes more critical. Many enterprise hardware components have built-in redundancies, such as RAID storage,...
Provided by VMware
-
White Papers
Enhanced Server Fault-Tolerance for Improved User Experience
Jun 2008
Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environment....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
Case Studies
ConnectEast Drives Motorway Excellence With an HP Infrastructure
Nov 2009
Transport infrastructure developer ConnectEast Pty Ltd. financed, built, and now maintains and operates the $3.8 billion AUD ($2.78 billion USD) EastLink project, one of the busiest highways in...
Provided by Hewlett-Packard (HP)
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Webcasts
MSDN Webcast: High Availability, Fault Tolerance and Scalability With BizTalk Server 2006 (Level 200)
Mar 2006
The mechanics of the core messaging engine in Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 afford the benefits of a cluster without the constraint of hardware affinity, eliminating the need to use identical...
Provided by Microsoft
-
White Papers
STEWARD: Scaling Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication to Wide Area Networks
Nov 2007
This paper presents the first hierarchical Byzantine fault-tolerant replication architecture suitable to systems that span multiple wide area sites. The architecture confines the effects of any...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
-
White Papers
The Design and Evaluation of a Practical System for Fault-Tolerant Virtual Machines
May 2010
The paper has implemented a commercial enterprise-grade system for providing fault-tolerant virtual machines, based on the approach of replicating the execution of a primary Virtual Machine (VM)...
Provided by VMware
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerant and Reliable Computation in Cloud Computing
Aug 2010
Cloud computing, with its great potentials in low cost and on-demand services, is a promising computing platform for both commercial and non-commercial computation clients. In this work, the...
Provided by National Tsing Hua University
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Webcasts
Business Insights Webcast: Introduction to SQL Azure (Level 100)
Nov 2010
Microsoft SQL Azure Database is a cloud-based relational database service built on Microsoft SQL Server technologies. SQL Azure Database provides a highly available, scalable, multi-tenant...
Provided by Microsoft
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White Papers
EEO: An Efficient MDS-Like RAID-6 Code for Parallel Implementation
Mar 2010
In recent years, researchers have found that some XOR erasure codes lead to higher performance and better throughput in fault-tolerant distributed data storage applications. However, little...
Provided by Binghamton University
-
White Papers
A Middleware Layer Mechanism for QoS Support in Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2006
Wireless sensor networks need different satisfying Quality of Service (QoS) levels for their successful operation. Providing QoS support for wireless sensor networks at the middleware layer is a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Fault Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2010
In this paper, the authors address fault tolerance in wireless sensor networks. In order to make the presentation self-contained, the authors start by providing a short summary of sensor networks...
Provided by University of California, Berkeley
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerant K-Fold Pivot Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Nov 2007
Selecting a small set of nodes called pivots, from all the nodes in a network and maintaining the routing infrastructure to and among each other can reduce routing overhead and excessive broadcast...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Secure and Fault-Tolerant Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jan 2008
Event boundary detection is in and of itself a useful application in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Typically, it includes the detection of a large-scale spatial phenomenon such as the...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Fault Tolerance for HPC With OpenVZ Virtualization by Lite Migration Toolkit
Dec 2010
The reliability of large-scale parallel jobs within a cluster or even across multi-clusters under the Grid or distributed computing environment is a long term issue due to its difficulties...
Provided by National Center for High-Performance Computing (NCHC)
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Using Virtualization to Validate Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems
Nov 2010
Asynchronous events and complex system state distributed across independent nodes make exposure and diagnosis of flaws in distributed systems a challenge. The difficulties are exacerbated when the...
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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Creating Fault-Tolerant Xen Virtualization at the Network Adapter Layer
Feb 2007
Xen virtualization is an open source technology designed to securely host multiple virtual machines - also called domains - on a single physical system, helping increase server utilization through...
Provided by Dell
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Adaptive Virtual Network Provisioning
Sep 2010
In the future, virtual networks will be allocated, maintained and managed much like clouds offering flexibility, extensibility and elasticity with resources acquired for a limited time and even on...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Improving Scalability and Fault Tolerance in an Application Management Infrastructure
Jun 2008
This paper explores the challenges associated with distributed application management in large-scale computing environments. In particular, the authors investigate several techniques for extending...
Provided by University of California, San Diego
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A Light-Weight Cache-Based Fault Detection and Checkpointing Scheme for MPSoCs Enabling Relaxed Execution Synchronization
Oct 2008
While technology advances have made MPSoCs a standard architecture for embedded systems, their applicability is increasingly being challenged by dramatic increases in the amount of device failures...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Reducing Overhead for Soft Error Coverage in High Availability Systems
Dec 2007
High reliability/availability systems typically use redundant computation and components to achieve detection, isolation and recovery from faults. Chip multiprocessors (CMPs) incorporate multiple...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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Robust and Flexible Power-Proportional Storage
Jun 2010
Power-proportional cluster-based storage is an important component of an overall cloud computing infrastructure. With it, substantial subsets of nodes in the storage cluster can be turned off to...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Achieving Power-Efficiency in Clusters Without Distributed File System Complexity
May 2010
Power-efficient operation is a desirable property, particularly for large clusters housed in datacenters. Recent work has advocated turning off entire nodes to achieve power-proportionality, but...
Provided by Georgia Tech
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Multiple-Objective Metric for Placing Multiple Base Stations in Wireless Sensor Networks
Aug 2007
The placement of base stations in wireless sensor networks affects the coverage of sensor nodes, the tolerance against faults or attacks, the energy consumption and the congestion from...
Provided by Korea University
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Online Failure Forecast for Fault-Tolerant Data Stream Processing
Dec 2007
In this paper, the authors present a new online failure forecast system to achieve predictive failure management for fault-tolerant data stream processing. Different from previous reactive or...
Provided by University of Illinois
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Tolerating File-System Mistakes With EnvyFS
May 2009
The authors introduce EnvyFS, an N-version local file system designed to improve reliability in the face of file-system bugs. EnvyFS, implemented as a thin VFS-like layer near the top of the...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
