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Modern-day computing system design and development is characterized by increasing system complexity and ever shortening time to market. For modeling techniques to be deployed successfully, they must conveniently deal with complex system models, and must be quick and easy to use by non-specialists. In this paper we introduce “action models”, a modeling formalism that tries to achieve the above goals for reliability evaluation of fault-tolerant distributed computing systems, including both software and hardware in the analysis. The metric of interest in action models is the job success probability, and we will argue why the traditional availability metric is insufficient for the evaluation of fault-tolerant distributed systems. We formally specify action models, and introduce path-based solution algorithms to deal with the potential solution complexity of created models. In addition, we show several examples of action models, and use a preliminary tool implementation to obtain reliability results for a reliable clustered computing platform.
Author(s): van Moorsel A
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Proceedings of the IEEE International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium, IPDS '98
Year of Conference: 1998
Pages: 119-128
ISSN: 1087-2191
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDS.1998.707715
DOI: 10.1109/IPDS.1998.707715
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ISBN: 0818686790
