TY - GEN
T1 - COTS hardware and software in high-availability systems
AU - Iyer, Ravi K.
AU - Avizienis, A.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The desire to use commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) components is prevalent throughout the industry, the DoD, and NASA. The potential benefits of using COTS are many. However, use of COTS products is also fraught with pitfalls and dangers. The purpose of this article is to discuss several issues including: the effect of processor bugs on the design of highly dependable systems; COTS versus radiation hard components; use of COTS to build highly available enterprise computing systems; and new research issues in designing COTS-based high availability network systems.
AB - The desire to use commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) components is prevalent throughout the industry, the DoD, and NASA. The potential benefits of using COTS are many. However, use of COTS products is also fraught with pitfalls and dangers. The purpose of this article is to discuss several issues including: the effect of processor bugs on the design of highly dependable systems; COTS versus radiation hard components; use of COTS to build highly available enterprise computing systems; and new research issues in designing COTS-based high availability network systems.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0032676221
SN - 0780357639
T3 - Proceedings - Annual International Conference on Fault-Tolerant Computing
SP - 120
BT - Proceedings - Annual International Conference on Fault-Tolerant Computing
PB - IEEE
T2 - Proceedings of the 1999 29th Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS-29)
Y2 - 15 June 1999 through 18 June 1999
ER -