Designing a system for fault tolerance is a robust design principle for building systems that will continue to operate correctly or in an acceptable degraded fashion. This approach is appropriate for ...

It was the proverbial dark and stormy night. The access control and security system master controller located on the fifth floor of a high rise building just experienced a total failure. It's totally ...

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Large-scale quantum computers are still years away, but it is well known that they will need error correction. All of the components in a quantum computer are ...

In a program aimed at boosting acceptance of its fault-tolerant Wintel-based systems, Stratus Computer Corp. last week announced that it will pay up to $100,000 in cash or product credit to Stratus ...

A University of Cambridge project aimed at enabling mechanical systems to "learn" to adapt to damage in real time could improve air safety by helping to prevent accidents such as the 1992 loss of an ...

The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of critical components, such as CPUs, ...