End of Software, The: Finding Security, Flexibility, and Profit in the On Demand Future

Recovery-Oriented Computing

The academic community has also focused on the challenges of providing high-availability computing. Armando Fox at Stanford University and Dave Patterson at the University of California Berkeley have been leading a research effort dubbed recovery-oriented computing (ROC). Patterson was a co-leader of the RISC architecture movement along with John Hennesey, now president of Stanford.

The work has focused on four key principles, the first of which is speedy recovery. Problems are going to occur, so we should design systems that recover quickly. Second, we must give operators better tools with which to pinpoint the sources of faults in multicomponent systems. Third, we must build systems that support an undo function, ...