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Week 12: Fault Tolerance

Lecture notes:

Supplemental notes:

Discussion in answers.com.
The Byzantine Generals Problem, Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, Marshall Pease. SRI International: A paper introducing the Byzantine Generals Problem
The Byzantine Generals Problem: Notes from the University of Wisconsin - Madison
The Byzantine Generals Problem: Another set of notes from the Cornell
Understanding RAID

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transient faults, intermittent faults, permanent faults, synchronous vs. asynchronous systems, replication, redundancy, availability fail-silent faults, Byzantine faults, information redundancy, time redundancy, physical redundancy, k-fault tolerance, active replication, triple modular redundancy (TMR), primary backup, two-army problem, Byzantine generals problem.

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Week 12: Fault Tolerance

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