Computing Through Time: Intelligence Failures

A process fails by omission if it "forgets" to send or receive messages. Considering omission failures is crucial for distributed systems, as such failures model both crash failures and incorrect behavior of process input/output buffers (such as buffer ...

Designing highly dependable systems requires a good understanding of failure characteristics. Unfortunately, little raw data on failures in large IT installations are publicly available. This paper analyzes failure data collected at two large high-...