(CS60058) FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS
Spring 2014
Instructor
Soumyajit Dey
Office: Room 306, CSE Building
Email: soumya @ cse.iitkgp.ernet.in
Class Timing
Wednesday: 11:30 - 12:30 am
Thursday: 10:30 - 11:30 am
Friday: 9:30 am - 10:30 am
You may think of revising your knowledge about linear differential equations from here
http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/Linear.aspx
(Note that the entire PDF is downloadable). Also, recollect
your knowledge about Laplace transforms from any standard Engineering Math text.
Evaluation
- Midsem - 30
- Endsem - 50
- Course Project - 20
The course provides an introduction to the following topics of Fault tolerant computing,
1. Introduction.
2. Hardware fault tolerance.
3. Information redundancy.
4. Fault-tolerant Networks.
5. Software fault-tolerance.
6. Checkpointing.
7. Software reliability: current trends and techniques
Course Project Allocation
Assignment 1 marks
Assignment 2 marks