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Fault Tolerant Computing Systems in Germany

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The Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Computing

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The paper consists of a survey of recent activities in the field of fault-tolerant computing in Germany. Three different sections of the paper emphasize industrial applications designed to tolerate hardware failures, designs intended to make use of software diversity against software faults, and research oriented projects having the goal of designing a complete system or investigating only partial aspects of fault tolerance. Since publications were scattered in literature and several projects are documented in German language only, an extented list of references has been added to the paper which also indicates current activities of the German professional societies with respect to fault tolerance.

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    Winfried Görke

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  2. Technical University, Wien, Austria

    Hermann Kopetz

  3. LAAS, Toulouse, France

    Jean-Claude Laprie

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Görke, W. (1987). Fault Tolerant Computing Systems in Germany. In: Avižienis, A., Kopetz, H., Laprie, JC. (eds) The Evolution of Fault-Tolerant Computing. Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems, vol 1. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-8871-2_17

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