Fault Tolerance for Middleware & Distributed Systems

Useful Resources

• IFIP WG 10.4 Dependable Computing Workshops
• Tutorial on Fault-Tolerant CORBA,
  Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie-Mellon University
• Embedded Dependable Systems Resources
  Philip Koopman, Carnegie Mellon University
• Totally ordered broadcast and multicast algorithms: A comprehensive survey
  Xavier Défago, André Schiper and Péter Urbán, EPFL, Switzerland, Technical Report DSC/2000/036, September 2000
• A Modern Taxonomy of High Availability
  Ron Resnick
• Reliable Multicast Resources
  Talarian Corporation
• Software Rejuvenation
  Kishor Trivedi's research group, Duke University
• Availability Modeling
  Kishor Trivedi, Duke University
• The CORBA Comparison Project (CORBA Benchmarks)
  Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia

Downtime Cost (Statistics, Surveys, Comparisons)

• Improving Systems Availability
  IBM Global Services
• Comparison of High Availability Software and Hardware Clusters
  D. H. Brown Associates, Inc.
• Making Smart Investments to Reduce Unplanned Downtime
  D. Scott, Gartner Group, 1999
• Five T's of Database Availability
  Standish Group Research Note, 1999
• TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) in the Trenches
  Standish Group Research Note, 1999
• Downtime and Outages: Real Incidents & Causes
  Priya Narasimhan, Carnegie-Mellon University

Standardization Efforts

• Fault-Tolerant CORBA Standard
  The Object Management Group (OMG)
• J2EE APIs for Continuous Availability
  Java Community Process
• High Availability Forum
  Dialogic, GoAhead, HP, Intel, LynuxWorks, MontaVista, Motorola Computer Group, RadiSys, Ziatech
• Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
  International Federation on Information Processing (IFIP)
• Trusted Computing Platform Alliance Specification
  Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft

Fault-Tolerant Middleware & Systems

• Anatidae (for CORBA, DCE)
  Bellcore & Carnegie-Mellon University
• Anois (for CORBA)
  Trinity College, Dublin
• Arjuna
  University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
• Aroma (for Java RMI)
  University of California at Santa Barbara
• AQuA (for CORBA)
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & BBN Technologies
• Backhand (for web replication)
  John Hopkins University
• COMERA: COM Extensible Remoting Architecture (for COM)
  AT & T Laboratories-Research
• CORBA Replication Service (CRS)
  University of Michigan
• DeCAF Pub/Sub Messaging Middleware (for CORBA, Java RMI)
  Etsee Soft Inc.
• Delta-4, GUARDS
  Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS), France
• DOORS: Distributed Object Oriented Reliable Service (for CORBA)
  Lucent Technologies
• Electra (for CORBA)
  Silvano Maffeis, University of Zurich
• The Eternal System (for CORBA)
  University of California at Santa Barbara & Eternal Systems, Inc.
• FilterFresh (for Java RMI)
  Lucent Technologies
• FRIENDS (for CORBA)
  Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS), France
• HARDPack: High Availability Real-time Distributed Package (for CORBA)
  Lockheed Martin Corporation
• Himalaya Server
  Compaq Corporation
• Interoperable Replication Logic (for CORBA)
  University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
• Jgroup/ARM
  Universita di Bologna, NNTU, Stavanger University Colllege
• Maestro/Ensemble (for CORBA)
  Cornell University
• MIGOR (for CORBA)
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• Nile (for CORBA)
  University of Texas at Austin
• Nix/OGS: The Object Group Service (for CORBA)
  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
• Object Switch (for CORBA)
  North Street Systems
• Phoenix (for COM/COM+)
  Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
• Phoinix (for CORBA)
  National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan
• Recovery-Oriented Computing
  University of California, Berkeley & Stanford University
• ROAFTS (for CORBA)
  SoHaR Inc., Beverly Hills, CA
• Q/CORBA (part of the Arcadia Project)
  University of Colorado at Boulder
• SelfReliant
  GoAhead
• Somersault
  Hewlett-Packard