Title :
Cost-effective global fault-tolerant multiprocessors
Author :
Yang, Chu-Sing ; Wu, Shun-Yue
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Comput. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Abstract :
The global design approach we propose for fault-tolerant multiprocessors is cost-effective, while assuring full spare utilization during a proper reconfiguration process. Use of task reassignment during reconfiguration helps keep system costs effective and system size expandable easily. Our scheme is topology-independent; that is, any multiprocessor system can be applied. As compared with previous work, the proposed scheme can achieve higher or the same reliability at less extra hardware cost
Keywords :
fault tolerant computing; hypercube networks; multiprocessing systems; reliability; cost-effective global fault-tolerant multiprocessors; full spare utilization; global design approach; multiprocessor system; n-cube; reconfiguration process; system costs; system size; task reassignment; topology-independent; Computer architecture; Costs; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Hardware; Joining processes; Military computing; Multiprocessing systems; Redundancy; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks, 1994. (ISPAN), International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Kanazawa
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6507-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISPAN.1994.367145
