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Fault Tolerant Computing

CS530 On Campus (001) and Distance (801)
(Spring 2018)

Instructor:
- Yashwant K. Malaiya, Professor
- Email: malaiya at cs dot colostate dot edu
- Office: CSB356
- Office Phone: +1-(970)-491-7031
- Office Hours: W 2-3 PM, Th 10:30-11:30

GTA:
- Dave Besen
- Email: cs530dl at cs.colostate.edu or David.Besen at colostate.edu
- Office: Lab 120
- Office Phone: TBD
- Office Hours: Mondays 1-3 PM, or by appointment

Course Objectives:

Schedule:
Prerequisites:

Textbook:
- The course is not based on a single textbook. The course web-site will provide some of the documents, including the text: Software Reliability Assurance Handbook by Lakey and Neufelder. Material drawn from several publications will be used.
- Recommended books:
  - Parag Lala: "Fault tolerant and Fault Testable Digital Design"; (Prentice Hall International). It is not available from the publisher. The instructor has a few copies of this text which may be borrowed.
  - Israel Koren & C. Mani Krishna: "Fault-Tolerant Systems" (Morgan Kaufmann)
  - Some of the conferences, journals & books in this field: Here is a list.
- Canvas:
- Grading (Subject to change):
  - Research Project (20%)
  - Participation (5%)
  - Quizzes (on-line or in-class) and assignments (30%)
  - One mid-term exam (20%)
  - A final exam (25%)
  - The mid-term and final exam may take the form of on-line exams. Some of the assignments may be implemented such that the answers need to be entered in form of an on-line exam.
- Department policies:
- Distance section: Comparison to traditional on-campus delivery:
  - Student Experience: In the on-line version of this course, the student has the course materials, along with on-line lecture slides giving examples. Automatically-graded on-line quizzes provide instant feedback on student comprehension. Part of the on-line student's grade is based on his contributions to course topic discussions in the Canvas discussion groups. These asynchronous discussions may be richer and more detailed than for an in-class discussion, as the students have time to consider and prepare their opinions and responses, including references. Furthermore, all students are required to participate in every discussion. The on-line students may ask questions at any time via email or the discussion groups, whenever they are having trouble. The instructor and/or teaching assistant is likely to check his email and the discussion group messages more often than office hours are held. This course may be more interactive for the on-line students than for many students in on-campus courses.
  - Time Commitment: The on-line course covers the same material that is covered in the on-campus version of the course.
  - Equipment: Students are expected to have adequate computing resources including a PC, access to the Internet and MS Excel (or a statistical package). You may be required to download and run specific public domain programs.
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