With petascale computers only a year or two away there is a pressing need to anticipate and
compensate for a probable increase in failure and application interruption rates …

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition has been considered
essential reading by instructors, students and practitioners of computer design for over 20 …

Designing highly dependable systems requires a good understanding of failure
characteristics. Unfortunately, little raw data on failures in large IT installations are publicly …

Component failure in large-scale IT installations is becoming an ever-larger problem as the
number of components in a single cluster approaches a million. This article is an extension …

In 1986 Jim Gray published his landmark study of the causes of failures of Tandem systems
and the techniques Tandem used to prevent such failures See J. Gray. Why do computers …

Troubleshooting the performance of production software is challenging. Most existing tools,
such as profiling, tracing, and logging systems, reveal what events occurred during …

Configuration errors (ie, misconfigurations) are among the dominant causes of system
failures. Their importance has inspired many research efforts on detecting, diagnosing, and …

A significant fraction of software failures in large-scale Internet systems are cured by
rebooting, even when the exact failure causes are unknown. However, rebooting can be …

It is time to broaden our performance-dominated research agenda. A four order of
magnitude increase in performance since the first ASPLOS in 1982 means that few outside …

Software misconfigurations are time-consuming and enormously frustrating to troubleshoot.
In this paper, we show that dynamic information flow analysis helps solve these problems by …