Performability Evaluation of the SIFT Computer

• Published in: IEEE transactions on computers Vol. C-29; no. 6; pp. 501 - 509
• Main Authors: Meyer, J F, FURCHTGOTT, D G, Wu, L T
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.1980
• Subjects: Aircraft; Airports; Atmospheric modeling; Computational modeling; Fault tolerant computing; performability evaluation; performance evaluation; Reliability; reliability evaluation; SIFT computer; Trajectory

Performability modeling and evaluation methods are applied to the SIFT computer in the computational environment of an air transport mission. User-visible performance of the "total system" (SIFT plus its environment) is modeled as a random variable taking values in a set of "accomplis...