[96140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP Problem on 04/16/2007
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Thu Apr 19 13:14:01 2007
To: "David Temkin" <dave@rightmedia.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:03:40 -0400
In-Reply-To: <D0EE299B3057664DBA3D11BA74F994BD02F28D86@cba0e2k12.CBA0.centerbeam.com> (David Temkin's message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:52:40 -0700")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
"David Temkin" <dave@rightmedia.com> writes:
>> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
>> Behalf Of Warren Kumari
>> Yup, Sandia National Labs made a radiation hardened Pentium
>> and, as far as I remember, was working on a hardened SPARC --
>> there was also some work done (AFAIR on PPC) whereby 3
>> processors would run the same instructions and vote on the output...
>>
>
>
> Thinking of perhaps Resilience? http://www.resilience.com/
>
> God, those things were horrid before they realized that the business
> model of assuming "The app will always be OK, the issue will be the
> hardware" was completely misguided. I forget what the product was named
> at the time, but I'll never forget what a piece of crap it was.
Eh, they're not the only folks to have had
voting-muti-cpu-lockstep-execution hardware platforms. Stratus did it
for years; the Tandem Integrity S2 (to which I ported Emacs 18.55 many
moons ago) was similar.
---Rob
