Susceptibility of commodity systems and software to memory soft errors

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1557-1568

  Messer, Alan ^a   Bernadat, Philippe ^b   Fu, Guangrui ^c   Chen, Deqing ^d   Dimitrijevic, Zoran ^e   Lie, David ^f   Mannaru, Durga Devi ^g   Riska, Alma ^h   Milojicic, Dejan ⁱ  

^a Samsung Electron Corp Technol   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^c DOCOMO USA LABS   (United States)

^d Ask Jeeves Inc   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g IBM   (United States)

^h SEAGATE RESEARCH   (United States)

ⁱ HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodity; Java; Memory errors; Operating systems; Recovery; Soft errors

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COSMIC RAYS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

COMMODITY SYSTEMS; JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINES; MEMORY ERRORS; SOFT ERRORS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 11244319500     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2004.119     Document Type: Article

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