BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
Robert E. Seastrom
rs at seastrom.com
Thu Apr 19 17:03:40 UTC 2007
"David Temkin" <dave at rightmedia.com> writes:
>> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On
>> Behalf Of Warren Kumari
>> Yup, Sandia National Labs made a radiation hardened Pentium
>> and, as far as I remember, was working on a hardened SPARC --
>> there was also some work done (AFAIR on PPC) whereby 3
>> processors would run the same instructions and vote on the output...
>>
>
>
> Thinking of perhaps Resilience? http://www.resilience.com/
>
> God, those things were horrid before they realized that the business
> model of assuming "The app will always be OK, the issue will be the
> hardware" was completely misguided. I forget what the product was named
> at the time, but I'll never forget what a piece of crap it was.
Eh, they're not the only folks to have had
voting-muti-cpu-lockstep-execution hardware platforms. Stratus did it
for years; the Tandem Integrity S2 (to which I ported Emacs 18.55 many
moons ago) was similar.
---Rob
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