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Fault Tolerant Computing

CS530 Sections 001 and 801
Spring 2021

Instructor:
- Yashwant K. Malaiya, Professor
- Email: malaiya at colostate.edu
- Office: MS Teams (Will not be in CSB356)
- Office Phone: +1-(970)-491-7031 (Not during the pandemic)
- Office Hours: W 3:30-4:30 PM

GTA
- Ujwal Srinivasa
- Email: ujwal.srinivasa at colostate.edu
- Office: MS Teams
- Office Hours: Tu 1-3PM, W 3-5 PM

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%)
  - Some of the assignments may be implemented such that the answers need to be entered in form of an on-line exam.
- Policies:
- Distance section: Comparison to traditional on-campus delivery:
  - Student Experience: Both on-campus and distance students are required to participate in the on-line activities. The on-campus students are required to attend lectures and participate in the lectures. The distance students are expected to interact on-line more often, sharing questions, answers, observations and insight. Automatically-graded Canvas quizzes provide instant feedback on student comprehension. Part of the students' grade is based on his contributions to course topic discussions in the Canvas discussion groups. In the on-line version of this course, the student has the course materials, on-line lecture slides and video recordings. 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 discussion groups or email, 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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Fault Tolerant Computing

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