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Principal Features of the Voltan Family of Reliable Node Architectures for Distributed Systems

Lookup NU author(s): Emeritus Professor Santosh Shrivastava, Dr Paul EzhilchelvanORCiD, Dr Neil Speirs, Dr Alan Tully

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Abstract

A VOLTAN node is composed of a number of conventional processors on which application level processes are replicated to achieve4 fault tolerance. The architecture of a family of such nodes with differing functionalities is presented. These include failure masking, fail signal and fail-silent nodes. The software architectures of a three processor failure masking and a two processor fail-silent nodes are discussed in detail. The paper also discusses the suitability of VOLTAN nodes as building blocks of reliable distributed systems.

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Author(s): Shrivastava SK, Ezhilchelvan PD, Speirs NA, Tao S, Tully A

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: Computing Laboratory Technical Report Series

Year: 1991

Pages: 17

Print publication date: 01/10/1991

Source Publication Date: October 1991

Report Number: 348

Institution: Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne

URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/348.pdf

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