Failure data analysis of a large-scale heterogeneous server environment

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 772-781

  Sahoo, Ramendra K ^a   Squillante, Mark S ^a   Sivasubramaniam, Anand ^b   Zhang, Yanyong ^c  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEAT LOSSES; SERVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

FAILURE DATA ANALYSIS; LARGE-SCALE SERVERS; TOTAL COST OF OWNERHIP (TCO); VOLTAGE LEVELS;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 4544382099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/dsn.2004.1311948     Document Type: Conference Paper

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