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Ada-Europe 1994: Ada in Europe pp 43–59Cite as

The AECSS fault tolerant distributed Ada testbed and application

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The AECSS effort is designed to identify and develop technology to support distributed, multiprocessor Ada software. As a result SBS personnel have implemented system software and tools allowing development of Ada programs that can be distributed across multiple processors and chassis. With the stabilization of the Ada9X Distributed Systems Annex, the Annex's model and facilities have been adopted and are supported within the constraints of an Ada83 compilation system. In addition, fault tolerance capabilities have been added, within the Annex context, such that processor failures need not cause overall application failure. Developers specify backup locations for partitions and control the selection of backups during execution. A proposed distributed application utilizing the fault tolerance capabilities has been well received by aircraft companies serving the petrochemical industry in hazardous conditions. We describe the distribution and fault tolerance facilities as well as the application.

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  1. SBS Engineering, Inc., 18333 Egret Bay Blvd. Suite 340, 77058, Houston, TX, USA

    Patrick Rogers

  2. United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, USA

    Marc Pitarys

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Rogers, P., Pitarys, M. (1994). The AECSS fault tolerant distributed Ada testbed and application. In: Toussaint, M. (eds) Ada in Europe. Ada-Europe 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 887. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58822-1_87

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