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Measuring Fault Tolerance with the FTAPE fault injection tool

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Quantitative Evaluation of Computing and Communication Systems (TOOLS 1995)

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This paper describes FTAPE (Fault Tolerance And Performance Evaluator), a tool that can be used to compare fault-tolerant computers. The major parts of the tool include a system-wide fault injector, a workload generator, and a workload activity measurement tool. The workload creates high stress conditions on the machine. Using stress-based injection, the fault injector is able to utilize knowledge of the workload activity to ensure a high level of fault propagation. The errors/fault ratio, performance degradation, and number of system crashes are presented as measures of fault tolerance.

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  1. Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois

    Timothy K. Tsai & Ravishankar K. Iyer

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Tsai, T.K., Iyer, R.K. (1995). Measuring Fault Tolerance with the FTAPE fault injection tool. In: Beilner, H., Bause, F. (eds) Quantitative Evaluation of Computing and Communication Systems. TOOLS 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 977. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0024305

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