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Heuristic Assignments of Redundant Software Versions and Processors in Fault-tolerant Computer Systems for Maximum Reliability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Soo Kar Leow  and
David F. Mcallister
Soo Kar Leow
Affiliation:
Graduate Program in Operations Research North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
David F. Mcallister
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
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Abstract

We address the problem of assigning multiple copies of n independently developed versions of a program to a set of m(m > n) possibly heterogeneous processors to maximize system reliability. This problem is viewed as a partition and assignment problem. We first partition the set of processors into n clusters or subgroups. A program version is then assigned to be executed on all the processors in the cluster. This means that each processor in the cluster will execute a copy of the assigned version. The cluster's unreliability is the probability of failure of all its processors. Component i of this system is composed of the copies of version i and the assigned cluster of processors.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 457 - 479
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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