Week 12.5: Fault Tolerance

Lecture notes:

Recitation notes:
Fault Tolerance
Lecture Slides/notes

Supplemental notes:

Discussion in answers.com.
The Byzantine Generals Problem, Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak, Marshall Pease. SRI International
A paper on 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

Buzzwords:
transient faults, intermittent faults, permanent faults, 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.