Increasing relevance of memory hardware errors a case for recoverable programming models

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on ACM SIGOPS European Workshop: Beyond the PC: New Challenges for the Operating System, EW 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 97-102

  Milojicic, Dejan ^a   Messer, Alan ^a   Shau, James ^a   Fu, Guangrui ^a   Munoz, Alberto ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COSMOLOGY; ERRORS; HARDWARE; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; RADIATION HARDENING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT; COMMODITY HARDWARE; COMMODITY SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; PROGRAMMING ERRORS; PROGRAMMING MODELS; SHARED MEMORY SYSTEM; TERRESTRIAL COSMIC RAYS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

EID: 77952748341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/566726.566749     Document Type: Conference Paper

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