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Overview of Distributed Systems: Characteristics, Classification, Computation, Communication, and Fault Models

Characterizing Distributed Systems: Multiple autonomous computers with CPUs, memory, storage, and I/O paths, interconnected geographically, shared state, global invariants. Classifying Distributed Systems: Based on synchrony, communication medium, fault models like crash and Byzantine failures. Comp

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Power System Fault Calculation and Protection Analysis

In this technical document, we delve into the calculation of fault current and fault apparent power in symmetrical three-phase short circuit scenarios within power systems. Through detailed equivalent circuit diagrams, reactance calculations, and per unit value derivations, the fault current and app

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Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems

Byzantine fault tolerance is crucial in ensuring the reliability of distributed systems, especially in the presence of malicious nodes. This concept deals with normal faults, crash faults, and the challenging Byzantine faults, where nodes can exhibit deceptive behaviors. The Byzantine Generals Probl

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Exploring TOLERANCE - Artwork by Guy Ferrer

Guy Ferrer, a contemporary French/Mediterranean artist, created the TOLERANCE series to address religious tensions and promote compassion, hope, and mutual respect. Through his sculptures, Ferrer advocates for universal tolerance, emphasizing the importance of accepting different beliefs to foster h

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Understanding Fault Diagnosis in Mechanical and Electrical Systems

Explore the essential methods and techniques for fault diagnosis in mechanical and electrical systems in industrial settings. Learn to identify different types of faults, utilize fault-finding aids, and rectify issues promptly to prevent future failures. Discover industry-recognized fault diagnosing

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Understanding Autoimmunity and Immunological Tolerance

Autoimmunity is a condition where the body's immune cells mistakenly attack its own tissues, leading to damage. Immunological tolerance helps prevent this by mechanisms like central and peripheral tolerance. Central tolerance involves deleting self-reactive immune cells during maturation in key orga

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Customer Controlled SFI (CCSFI) Fault Raising Guide

This guide by British Telecommunications plc provides detailed instructions on raising a Customer Controlled Special Faults Investigation (CCSFI) fault. It covers topics such as Version Control, Best Practices for Knowledge Based Diagnostics (KBD) and CCSFI, logging in, and step-by-step guidance for

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Understanding Byzantine Fault Tolerance: A Comprehensive Overview

Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) is a critical concept in computer science, addressing faults in distributed systems. This summary covers the types of faults (normal, crash, Byzantine), implications of Byzantine faults, Byzantine Generals Problem, impossibility results, and the complexity of solving

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Guide to Raising a Fault with British Telecommunications plc

This guide by British Telecommunications plc provides detailed instructions on raising a fault, including best practices, version control, and using Knowledge Based Diagnostics (KBD) for diagnosing 21C copper and fibre broadband issues. It covers logging in, running KBD, accessing fault reporting to

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Understanding MapReduce in Distributed Systems

MapReduce is a powerful paradigm that enables distributed processing of large datasets by dividing the workload among multiple machines. It tackles challenges such as scaling, fault tolerance, and parallel processing efficiently. Through a series of operations involving mappers and reducers, MapRedu

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Round-Efficient Byzantine Broadcast Under Strongly Adaptive and Majority Corruptions

This paper discusses a round-efficient Byzantine broadcast protocol that addresses strong adaptive adversaries and majority corruptions. The protocol involves unique and unbreakable peer signatures, committees for message verification, and time-locking mechanisms to prevent message tampering. By uti

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Economic Models of Consensus on Distributed Ledgers in Blockchain Technology

This study delves into Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) protocols in the realm of distributed ledgers, exploring the complexities of achieving consensus in trusted adversarial environments. The research examines the classic problem in computer science where distributed nodes communicate to reach agre

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Byzantine Failures and CAP Theorem Overview

Byzantine failures refer to arbitrary patterns of failures where nodes exhibit inconsistent behavior. This lecture discusses Byzantine agreement and the challenges in reaching consensus with faulty nodes. It explores the minimum number of processes needed for consensus and extends the concepts to ge

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Distributed Consensus Models in Blockchain Networks

Economic and technical aspects of Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) protocols for achieving consensus in distributed ledger systems are explored. The discussion delves into the challenges of maintaining trust in adversarial environments and the strategies employed by non-Byzantine nodes to mitigate un

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Geometric Routing Concepts and Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Geometric Routing enables routing without overhead, where each node knows its global coordinates and forwards messages based on proximity to the destination. Byzantine Faults pose challenges with arbitrary node behavior, but a Byzantine-Robust Geometric Routing algorithm addresses this in a 3-connec

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Fault Location and Detection in Smart Grids

Fast and accurate fault detection and location are crucial in power grid management, especially in smart grids with bidirectional power flow. This study explores various fault location methods including impedance-based and travelling waves-based approaches. It also discusses the use of Intelligent E

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Fault-tolerant and Load-balanced VuFind Project Overview

Project Background: Part of the National Digital Library initiative, the VuFind project aims to provide a discovery interface for Finnish archives, libraries, and museums. It started development in 2012 due to the insufficiency of existing commercial products. The focus is on enhancing fault toleran

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Fault Localization (Pinpoint) Project Proposal Overview

The Fault Localization (Pinpoint) project proposal aims to pinpoint the exact source of failures within a cloud NFV networking environment by utilizing a set of algorithms and APIs. The proposal includes an overview of the fault localization process, an example scenario highlighting the need for fau

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Enhancing Data Storage Reliability with High-Parity GPU-Based RAID

The research discusses the challenges faced by traditional RAID systems in maintaining data reliability and proposes a solution using High-Parity GPU-Based RAID. It highlights the limitations of current technologies in fault tolerance, the inaccuracies in disk failure statistics, and the significanc

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Understanding RAID 5 Technology: Fault Tolerance and Degraded Mode

RAID 5 is a popular technology for managing multiple storage devices within a single array, providing fault tolerance through data striping and parity blocks. This article discusses the principles of fault tolerance in RAID 5, the calculation of parity blocks, handling degraded mode in case of disk

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Exact Byzantine Consensus on Undirected Graphs: Local Broadcast Model

This research focuses on achieving exact Byzantine consensus on undirected graphs under the local broadcast model, where communication is synchronous with known underlying graphs. The model reduces the power of Byzantine nodes and imposes connectivity requirements. The algorithm involves flooding va

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Distributed Software Engineering Overview

Distributed software engineering plays a crucial role in modern enterprise computing systems where large computer-based systems are distributed over multiple computers for improved performance, fault tolerance, and scalability. This involves resource sharing, openness, concurrency, and fault toleran

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PSync: A Partially Synchronous Language for Fault-tolerant Distributed Algorithms

PSync is a language designed by Cezara Drăgoi, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Damien Zufferey to simplify the implementation and reasoning of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms. It introduces a DSL with key elements like communication-closed rounds, an adversary environment model, and efficient runtim

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Byzantine Faults and Consensus on Unknown Torus

The discussion revolves around achieving consensus in the presence of dense Byzantine faults on an unknown torus. Various challenges and impossibility theorems are explored, highlighting the complexities of reaching an agreement in such fault-prone environments. The content delves into the limitatio

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Cross-Rack-Aware Updates in Erasure-Coded Data Centers

Erasure coding is a fault-tolerance technique used in modern data centers to minimize data redundancy and increase reliability. This paper explores practical updates in erasure coding, highlighting the challenges of high update penalties and proposing cross-rack-aware strategies to mitigate cross-ra

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Understanding Distributed Systems and Fault Tolerance

Exploring the intricacies of distributed systems and fault tolerance in online services, from black box implementations to centralized systems, sharding, and replication strategies. Dive into the advantages and shortcomings of each approach to data storage and processing.

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Byzantine Fault Tolerance: Protocols, Forensics, and Research

Explore the realm of Byzantine fault tolerance through protocols like State Machine Replication and HotStuff, discussing safety, liveness, forensic support, and the impact of Byzantine faults. Dive into decades of research on achieving fault tolerance and examining forensic support in the face of By

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The Contributions of the Byzantine Empire to Civilization

The Byzantine Empire made significant contributions to civilization through art, law, religion, and centralization of government. The empire's legacy includes the preservation of Roman laws, promotion of Christianity, accumulation of church wealth, and establishment of Constantinople as a key center

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Upcoming Changes to IPEX Fault Reporting Journey

This pack explains the upcoming changes to the IPEX fault reporting journey for customers. A new BT Wholesale Voice Products Ordering and Support System will be introduced in March 2017. Customers will need to transition to the new online IPEX fault reporting journey via the BTWholesale.com web port

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Exploring Fault Localization Techniques in Software Debugging

Various fault localization techniques in software debugging are discussed, including black-box models, spectrum evaluation, comparison of artificial and real faults, failure modes, and design considerations. The importance of effective fault localization and improving fault localization tools is hig

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Introduction to Google's Pregel Distributed Analytics Framework

Google's Pregel is a large-scale graph-parallel distributed analytics framework designed for graph processing tasks. It offers high scalability, fault tolerance, and flexibility in expressing graph algorithms. Inspired by the Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) model, Pregel operates in super-steps, ena

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Comprehensive Overview of Fault Modeling and Fault Simulation in VLSI

Explore the intricacies of fault modeling and fault simulation in VLSI design, covering topics such as testing philosophy, role of testing in VLSI, technology trends affecting testing, fault types, fault equivalence, dominance, collapsing, and simulation methods. Understand the importance of testing

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Fault-Tolerant MapReduce-MPI for HPC Clusters: Enhancing Fault Tolerance in High-Performance Computing

This research discusses the design and implementation of FT-MRMPI for HPC clusters, focusing on fault tolerance and reliability in MapReduce applications. It addresses challenges, presents the fault tolerance model, and highlights the differences in fault tolerance between MapReduce and MPI. The stu

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Understanding Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems

Explore the concept of fault tolerance in distributed systems, focusing on system design that can recover from failures. Learn about failure types, characteristics, and the importance of addressing specified behavior to ensure proper system operation. Discover how transient and persistent failures i

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Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance Overview

Quantum error correction and fault tolerance are essential for realizing quantum computers due to the challenge of decoherence. Various approaches, including concatenated quantum error correcting codes and topological codes like the surface code, are being studied for fault-tolerant quantum computin

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Understanding the Effects of Air Gap Tolerance on Inductance Tolerance

This technical note delves into the impact of air gap tolerance on inductance tolerance in transformer manufacturing. It explains how controlling the core's air gap dimension is crucial for maintaining desired inductance levels within manufacturing constraints. The text discusses the small scale of

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Enhancing Fault Tolerance in BLIS with Algorithm-Based Techniques

Addressing the challenge of soft errors in supercomputers, this paper introduces algorithm-based fault tolerance methods to enhance the resilience of systems like BLIS. By integrating Application-Based Fault Tolerance (ABFT) into BLIS, the study aims to improve error detection and correction mechani

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Low-Redundancy Proactive Fault Tolerance for Stream Machine Learning

This study focuses on enabling fault tolerance for stream machine learning through erasure coding. Fault tolerance is crucial in distributed environments due to worker failures, and existing approaches like reactive fault tolerance and proactive replication have drawbacks. The use of erasure coding

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Secure Append-Only Memory for Byzantine Fault Tolerance

Explore the concept of Attested Append-Only Memory (A2M) in distributed systems, which ensures adversaries adhere to their commitments. Learn about safety and liveness goals, Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance (PBFT), equivocation issues, and the A2M log and interface for secure data management. Di

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Communication Complexity in Byzantine Agreement Research

The presentation discusses communication complexity in Byzantine Agreement, emphasizing a lower bound of (f/2) when After the Fact removal is considered. It explores two major contributions - the communication lower bound in randomized protocols and near-optimal subquadratic Byzantine Agreement. The

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