Validation of the fault/error handling mechanisms of the teraflops supercomputer

Digest of Papers - 28th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, FTCS 1998

Volumn 1998-January, Issue , 1998, Pages 382-389

  Constantinescu, Cristian ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE RELIABILITY; SOFTWARE TESTING; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

ACCELERATED STRATEGIC COMPUTING INITIATIVES; FAULT TOLERANCE MECHANISMS; FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS PER SECONDS; INTEL CORPORATIONS; RELIABILITY REQUIREMENTS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

FAULT TOLERANCE;

EID: 9144266883     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FTCS.1998.689489     Document Type: Conference Paper

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