Sequoia: a fault-tolerant tightly coupled multiprocessor for transaction processing Export

@article{Bernstein1988, abstract = {The Sequoia computer is a tightly coupled multiprocessor that avoids most of the fault-tolerance disadvantages of tight coupling by using a fault-tolerant hardware-design approach. An overview is give of how the hardware architecture and operating system (OS) work together to provide a high degree of fault tolerance with good system performance. A description of hardware is followed by a discussion of the multiprocessor synchronization problem. Kernel support for fault recovery and the recovery process itself are examined. It is shown the kernel, through a combination of locking, shadowed memory, and controlled flushing of non-write-through cache, maintains a consistent main memory state recoverable from any single-point failure. The user shared memory is also discussed}, author = {Bernstein, P. A.}, citeulike-article-id = {4494001}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.17}, doi = {10.1109/2.17}, journal = {Computer}, keywords = {computer, design, engd, fault-tolerance, software}, month = {Feb}, number = {2}, pages = {37--45}, posted-at = {2009-05-08 16:55:45}, priority = {2}, title = {Sequoia: a fault-tolerant tightly coupled multiprocessor for transaction processing}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.17}, volume = {21}, year = {1988} }

TY - JOUR ID - Bernstein1988 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4494001 N2 - The Sequoia computer is a tightly coupled multiprocessor that avoids most of the fault-tolerance disadvantages of tight coupling by using a fault-tolerant hardware-design approach. An overview is give of how the hardware architecture and operating system (OS) work together to provide a high degree of fault tolerance with good system performance. A description of hardware is followed by a discussion of the multiprocessor synchronization problem. Kernel support for fault recovery and the recovery process itself are examined. It is shown the kernel, through a combination of locking, shadowed memory, and controlled flushing of non-write-through cache, maintains a consistent main memory state recoverable from any single-point failure. The user shared memory is also discussed IS - 2 JF - Computer EP - 45 TI - Sequoia: a fault-tolerant tightly coupled multiprocessor for transaction processing VL - 21 SP - 37 KW - computer KW - design KW - engd KW - fault-tolerance KW - software AU - Bernstein, PA PY - 1988/Feb// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/2.17 ER -