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Redundancy and Replication Fault Tolerance on the System Level

@inproceedings{FriedrichAlexander2014RedundancyAR,
  title={Redundancy and Replication Fault Tolerance on the System Level},
  author={Kurt Kanzenbach Friedrich-Alexander},
  year={2014}
}
In the past decade the clock rates and densities of processors, enabled by new and smaller manufacture processes, increased. Due to this development current processors become less and less reliable and more vulnerable to physical effects such as the cosmic radiation, which can result in transient failures. One common approach to address hardware failures like these is to use redundant hardware. However, this strategy is expensive and not suitable in all cases. One alternative is to use… Expand
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