18-749 Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

18-749: Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems
Spring 2006

Prof. Priya Narasimhan

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DOWNTIME INCIDENTS
- Slashdot stories on bugs, viruses and downtime
- Ariane 5 Flight 501 Failure, Inquiry Board Report, Prof. J. L. Lions, July 1996
- Therac-25 Failure Description, Nancy Leveson, MIT
- Navy Smart Ship USS Yorktown
  - Software glitches leave Navy Smart Ship dead in the water, Government Computer News, July 13, 1998.
  - The Smart Ship is not the answer, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, June 1998
- Human error called culprit in 3 rocket launch failures, Florida Today Space Online, June 16, 1999
- Stock Market Outages Highlight Software Availability Issues, The Payne Report, July/August 2001

DOWNTIME COSTS AND STATISTICS
- Improving Systems Availability, IBM Global Services
- Comparison of High Availability Software and Hardware Clusters, D. H. Brown Associates, Inc.
- Making Smart Investments to Reduce Unplanned Downtime, D. Scott, Gartner Group, 1999
- Five T's of Database Availability, Standish Group Research Note, 1999
- TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) in the Trenches, Standish Group Research Note, 1999

CORBA
- CORBA for Beginners, Object Management Group (the CORBA standards body)
- CORBA: Integrating Diverse Applications within Distributed Heterogeneous Environments, Steve Vinoski, IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 14, no. 2, February 1997
- Cetus Links on CORBA (introductory material, tutorials, examples, specifications)
- Advanced CORBA Programming with C++, Michi Henning and Steve Vinoski, Addison-Wesley, 1999. (Reference book for CORBA programming using C++)
- CORBA FAQ for this course (quick way to get a simple JavaIDL application up and running)

ENTERPRISE JAVA BEANS (EJB)
- EJB Programming Restrictions, Java World, August 2000
- 2000 Forecast for the Application Server Market, Giga Information Group
- EJB FAQ for this course (quick way to get a simple JBoss EJB application up and running)
- Several good articles on EJB

DISTRIBUTED FAULT-TOLERANCE
- Fundamental Concepts of Dependability, Avizienis, Laprie & Randell
- Lessons Learned From Delta-4, David Powell
- Failure Analysis of an ORB in the Presence of Faults, LAAS, France
- Fault Injection Tools and Techniques, Iyer et. al.
- Fault-Tolerant CORBA Standard, Object Management Group
- Software Fault Tolerance: A Tutorial, Wilfredo Torres-Pomales, NASA/TM-2000-210616, October 2000, pp. 66
- NASA's prefered reliability and maintainability practices

REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
- Misconceptions about Real-Time Computing, John Stankovic, IEEE Computer, October 1998, pp. 10-19
- What Makes a Good Real-Time Operating System, Dedicated Systems, June 2001
- The Concise Handbook of Real-Time Systems, version 1.3, Timesys Corporation
- Real-Time and Embedded Systems, John Stankovic, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 28, no. 1, March 1996
- Adding Real-Time Capabilities to Java, Kevin Nilsen, Communications of the ACM, June 1998, vol. 41, no. 6