DE69517823D1 - Wartungskanal für modulare, hoch miteinander verbundene rechnersysteme - Google Patents

Wartungskanal für modulare, hoch miteinander verbundene rechnersysteme

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DE69517823D1
DE69517823D1 DE69517823T DE69517823T DE69517823D1 DE 69517823 D1 DE69517823 D1 DE 69517823D1 DE 69517823 T DE69517823 T DE 69517823T DE 69517823 T DE69517823 T DE 69517823T DE 69517823 D1 DE69517823 D1 DE 69517823D1
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Cray Research LLC
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F15/00—Digital computers in general; Data processing equipment in general
    • G06F15/16—Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs
    • G06F15/163—Interprocessor communication
    • G06F15/173—Interprocessor communication using an interconnection network, e.g. matrix, shuffle, pyramid, star, snowflake
    • G06F15/17337—Direct connection machines, e.g. completely connected computers, point to point communication networks
    • G06F15/17343—Direct connection machines, e.g. completely connected computers, point to point communication networks wherein the interconnection is dynamically configurable, e.g. having loosely coupled nearest neighbor architecture
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/07—Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
    • G06F11/0703—Error or fault processing not based on redundancy, i.e. by taking additional measures to deal with the error or fault not making use of redundancy in operation, in hardware, or in data representation
    • G06F11/0706—Error or fault processing not based on redundancy, i.e. by taking additional measures to deal with the error or fault not making use of redundancy in operation, in hardware, or in data representation the processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment
    • G06F11/0709—Error or fault processing not based on redundancy, i.e. by taking additional measures to deal with the error or fault not making use of redundancy in operation, in hardware, or in data representation the processing taking place on a specific hardware platform or in a specific software environment in a distributed system consisting of a plurality of standalone computer nodes, e.g. clusters, client-server systems
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/07—Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
    • G06F11/0703—Error or fault processing not based on redundancy, i.e. by taking additional measures to deal with the error or fault not making use of redundancy in operation, in hardware, or in data representation
    • G06F11/0751—Error or fault detection not based on redundancy
    • G06F11/0763—Error or fault detection not based on redundancy by bit configuration check, e.g. of formats or tags
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/07—Responding to the occurrence of a fault, e.g. fault tolerance
    • G06F11/16—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware
    • G06F11/20—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements
    • G06F11/202—Error detection or correction of the data by redundancy in hardware using active fault-masking, e.g. by switching out faulty elements or by switching in spare elements where processing functionality is redundant
    • G06F11/2023—Failover techniques
    • G06F11/2033—Failover techniques switching over of hardware resources
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
    • G06F11/00—Error detection; Error correction; Monitoring
    • G06F11/22—Detection or location of defective computer hardware by testing during standby operation or during idle time, e.g. start-up testing
    • G06F11/26—Functional testing
    • G06F11/273—Tester hardware, i.e. output processing circuits
    • G06F11/2736—Tester hardware, i.e. output processing circuits using a dedicated service processor for test

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  • Quality & Reliability (AREA)
  • Mathematical Physics (AREA)
  • Software Systems (AREA)
  • Hardware Redundancy (AREA)
  • Safety Devices In Control Systems (AREA)
  • Debugging And Monitoring (AREA)
DE69517823T 1994-12-07 1995-09-19 Wartungskanal für modulare, hoch miteinander verbundene rechnersysteme Expired - Fee Related DE69517823T2 (de)

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US08/350,648 US5692123A (en) 1994-12-07 1994-12-07 Maintenance channel for modulator, highly interconnected computer systems
PCT/US1995/011848 WO1996018156A1 (en) 1994-12-07 1995-09-19 Maintenance channel for modular, highly interconnected computer systems

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US (1) US5692123A (de)
EP (1) EP0796468B1 (de)
JP (1) JPH10505696A (de)
DE (1) DE69517823T2 (de)
WO (1) WO1996018156A1 (de)

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EP0796468B1 (de) 2000-07-05
EP0796468A1 (de) 1997-09-24
WO1996018156A1 (en) 1996-06-13
US5692123A (en) 1997-11-25
DE69517823T2 (de) 2001-02-22

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