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This paper describes fault tolerance techniques which have been developed and implemented for the multiprocessor system DIRMU 25 — a 25-processor system which is operational at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. First a short overview of the DIRMU hardware architecture, programming environment and parallel application programs is given. Fault-diagnosis and reconfiguration are implemented in a layer of the DIRMOS operating system: the hardware configuration management. The concept of this configuration management is described in general (based on a graph model) and its application for the fault-tolerant execution of parallel programs is discussed.
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Maehle, E., Moritzen, K., Wirl, K. (1986). Fault-tolerant hardware configuration management on the multiprocessor system DIRMU 25. In: Händler, W., Haupt, D., Jeltsch, R., Juling, W., Lange, O. (eds) CONPAR 86. CONPAR 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 237. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-16811-7_170
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