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P. M. Melliar-Smith
Researcher at SRI International
Publications - 6
Citations - 1884
P. M. Melliar-Smith is an academic researcher from SRI International. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fault tolerance & Scheduling (computing). The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 1836 citations.
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Synchronizing clocks in the presence of faults
TL;DR: Three algorithms for maintaining clock synchrony in a distributed multiprocess system where each process has its own clock work in the presence of arbitrary clock or process failures, including “two-faced clocks” that present different values to different processes.
SIFT - Design and analysis of a fault-tolerant computer for aircraft control. [Software Implemented Fault Tolerant systems]
J. H. Wensley,Leslie Lamport,J. Goldberg,M. W. Green,Karl N. Levitt,P. M. Melliar-Smith,R. E. Shostak,Charles B. Weinstock +7 more
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SIFT: Design and analysis of a fault-tolerant computer for aircraft control
J. H. Wensley,Leslie Lamport,J. Goldberg,M. W. Green,Karl N. Levitt,P. M. Melliar-Smith,Robert E. Shostak,Charles B. Weinstock +7 more
TL;DR: SIFT as discussed by the authors is an ultra-reliable computer for critical aircraft control applications that achieves fault tolerance by the replication of tasks among processing units, and it uses a specially designed redundant bus system to interconnect the processing units.
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Byzantine clock synchronization
TL;DR: An informal description is given of three fault-tolerant clock-synchronization algorithms that work in the presence of arbitrary kinds of failure, including “two-faced” clocks.
Development and analysis of the Software Implemented Fault-Tolerance (SIFT) computer
J. Goldberg,W. H. Kautz,P. M. Melliar-Smith,M. W. Green,Karl N. Levitt,R. L. Schwartz,Charles B. Weinstock +6 more
TL;DR: SIFT (Software Implemented Fault Tolerance) is an experimental, fault-tolerant computer system designed to meet the extreme reliability requirements for safety-critical functions in advanced aircraft.