Fault-tolerant computer system with I/O function capabilities

• Main Authors: HORST, ROBERT W, BANTON, RANDALL G, JEWETT, DOUGLAS E, CUTTS, RICHARD W., JR, DEBACKER, KENNETH C, NORWOOD, PETER C, ALLISON, JOHN DAVID, MEHTA, NIKHIL A
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 24.01.1996
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION STORAGE; PHYSICS; STATIC STORES

This fault-tolerant computer system employs multiple (for example, three) identical CPUs executing the same instruction stream, with multiple (for example, two) memory modules which in their address space of the CPUs store duplicates of the same data. The CPUs are loosely synchronized, as by detecti...