Availability analysis of blade server systems

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 621-640

  Smith, W Earl ^a   Trivedi, Kishor S ^b   Tomek, Lorrie A ^a   Ackaret, Jerry ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC MODELING; AVAILABILITY ANALYSIS; BLADE SERVERS; COMBINATORIAL METHODS; COMPONENT LEVELS; CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; EVALUATION APPROACHES; HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; HIGH AVAILABILITIES; HIGH-LEVEL FAULTS; INPUT PARAMETERS; MARKOV MODELS; MULTI-COMPONENT SYSTEMS; NUMBER OF STATE; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; STATE-SPACE METHODS; STEADY-STATE AVAILABILITIES;

COOLING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SERVERS;

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 60349126025     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/SJ.2008.5386524     Document Type: Article

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