A large-scale study of failures in high-performance computing systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 249-258

  Schroeder, Bianca ^a   Gibson, Garth A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTING SYSTEMS; LARGE CLUSTERS; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY;

EID: 33845593340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2006.5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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