Error behavior comparison of multiple computing systems: A case study using linux on pentium, solaris on SPARC, and AIX on POWER

Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing, PRDC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 339-346

  Chen, Daniel ^a   Gabriela, Jacques Silva ^a   Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ^a   Iyer, Ravishankar K ^a   Mealey, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; COMPUTING SYSTEMS; ERROR SENSITIVITIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FAULT INJECTIONS; PENTIUM; PENTIUM 4; SOLARIS; TRANSIENT FAULTS; ULTRASPARC; WEB-SERVERS;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 60349097095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PRDC.2008.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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