EDA122/DIT061 Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems, 2012 (7,5 hp)

 

Reading instructions
 (Note: preliminary version)

Last updated: 2012-09-01

Change history:

2012-09-01: Preliminary version.

2012-10-16: Reading instructions added for the paper "A Large-Scale Study of Failures in High-Performance Computing Systems".

Below you find reading instructions for the course book and the paper reprints.

The material is divided into the following three categories:

Book chapters

N. Storey, "Safety-Critical Computer Systems", Pearson, ISBN 0-201-42787-7

Chapter Careful reading Normal reading Casual reading
Chapter 1 Entire chapter   -
Chapter 2 Entire chapter - -
Chapter 3 Entire chapter   -
Chapter 4 Section 4.1 - 4.4, 4.6 4.5 -
Chapter 5 Section 5.1 - 5.3, 5.8, 5.9 Section 5.4, 5.7 Section 5.5, 5.6
Chapter 6 Section 6.1 - 6.6, 6.8 - Section 6.7
Chapter 7 Section 7.1, 7.2 (except cut and tie sets, pp. 179 - 182), 7.3, 7.4 - -
Chapter 12 Section 12.1 - 12.2 (except Figure 12.1 and Table 12.1), 12.11 - 12.13 Figure 12.1, Table 12.1
Section 12.3 - 12.8,
Section 12.9, 12.10
Chapter 14 Section 14.1 - 14.4 Section 14.5, 14.6 -
Chapter 15 Section 15.3 - -

 

Reprints

Paper Careful reading Normal reading Casual reading
ARIANE 5, Flight 501 Failure - Entire paper -
NonStop Advanced Architecture Section 1, 2, 3.0 - 3.3, 5 Section 6 Section 3.4-3.6, 4.
Basic Concepts and Taxonomy of Dependable and Secure Computing. Section 2, 3.2.1, 3.3.1, 3.4, 3.5, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, Section 1, 3.2.2 - 3.2.5, 3.3.2, 3.3.3, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6. -
The Time-Triggered Architecture Section IIE, IIF, IIIA, IIIB, IIIC, IIID, IIIE, IVA, VA, VB, VC, VD, VIA, VIB, VIC. Section, I, IIA, IIB, IIC, IID, IIID, IVB, IVC, IVD, VII. IIIF
Byzantine Agreement Section 3.1 - -
A Large Scale Experiment in N-version Programming - Section 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 Section 4
An Evaluation of Software Fault Tolerance in a Practical System - Section 1 (Intro), 2 (Exp. sys. config.), 3 (Conduct of Exp. Prog.),  4 (Exp. Prog. Results), 6 (Conclusions) Section 5 (Analysis of results)
A Large-Scale Study of Failures in High-Performance Computing Systems Section 9. Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 7, 8
Functional Safety Sheet from SP Entire sheet