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Why Do Computers Stop and What Can Be Done About It?

July 31, 2020 Andrei Gosman 1 min read

An interesting paper describing why do computers stop and possible ways to mitigate this. Written by Jim Gray, from Tandem Computers, it shows the results of study on system failures in large, distributed systems and ways to prevent them and improve MTBF.

Why do comptuters stop and what can be done about it?.

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