Things handed out or covered in class:

Title

Start

Date

Document

Transparency

Reference

Material

Course Information

Jan 9

html

 

 

Motivation & Introduction to Fault

Tolerance Terms

Jan 9

pdf

Lecture 1

 

 

Hardware and Software Examples of

Fault Tolerance: Stratus and Chameleon

Jan 11

pdf

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Siewiorek, Swarz

pp. 648-666

Pradhan

pp. 29-30

Quantitative tools for reliability analysis

(Discrete case)

Jan 18

pdf

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Lecture 6

Problem sheet

Solution to prob. 4

Quantitative tools for reliability analysis

(Continuous case)

Jan 30

pdf

Transparencies

Lecture 7

Lecture 8

Lecture 9

Problem sheet

Hardware Fault Tolerance

Feb 8

pdf

Lecture 10

Lecture 11

Lecture 12

Lecture 13

 

Software Fault Tolerance

Mar 6

pdf

Lecture 14

Lecture 15

Lecture 16

Lecture 17

Robust B-tree

presentation

Modeling

Mar 27

pdf

Lecture 18

Lecture 19

Lecture 20

Lecture 21

Lecture 22

 

Replication

Covered on camera

pdf

On camera lecture

Video (part 1) (zip file)

Video (part 2) (zip file)

Distributed Protocol Primitives

 

pdf

 

 

           

Administrative Announcements:

Title

Date

Document

Course Information

Jan 9

html

Anonymous feedback form

Jan 10

html

Regrade policy

Jan 10

html

Electronic handin instructions

Jan 11

html

Machine allocation for assignment 2

Jan 30

html

Final exam, final project presentations

Apr 24

html

 

Assignments:

Title

Handout Date

Due Date

Document

Solution

Detection

Through heartbeat

Jan 18

Updated: Jan 28

Feb 5

html

CPU load generator (C program)

Machine allocation

 

Quantitative evaluation

of reliability

Mar 16

Mar 25

html

pdf

pdf

grading key

Exams:

Title

Handout Date

Due Date

Questions

Clarifications

Solution

Mid-term

(Modeling)

Apr 22

Apr 30

pdf

html

 

 

Sample Final Exam

Apr 29

 

pdf

html

 

 

Active Learning Activity:

Title

Handout Date

Document

Solution

Parity

Jan 11

html

html

Checksum

Jan 16

html

html

Reliability estimation

Feb 1, 6

html

pdf

Reliability block diagram

Feb 20

html

html

Comparison of multi-version

Programming

Mar 6-8

html

html

 

Course Projects:

Title

Date

Document

Sample project list from 2005

Feb 8

html

Project list

Feb 11

html

pdf

Final report for project 1

Project Presentations

Title

Group Members

Document

 

Dependability in the News” Presentations

Date

Topic

Presenter

Presentation

 

References

Date

Topic

File

Mar 5

DSN Fast Abstracts 2006

pdf

 

 

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