NASA Contractor Report 181938 Investigation of the Applicability of a Functional Programming Model to Fault Tolerant Parallel Processing for Knowledge-Based Systems

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  • Richard Harper
  • Charles Stark
چکیده

In a fault-tolerant parallel computer, a functional programming model can facilitate distributed checlq3ointing, error recovery, load balancing, and graceful degradation. Such a model has been implemented on the Draper Fault Tolerant Parallel Processor (FTPP). When used in conjunction with the FrPP's fault detection and masking capabilities, this implementation results in a graceful degradation of system performance after faults. Three gracefuL1degradation algorithms have been implemented and are presented. A user interface has been implemented which requires minimal cognitive overhead by the application programmer, masking such complexities as the system's redundancy, distributed nature, variable complement of processing resources, load balancing, fault occurrence and recovery. This user interface is described and its use demonstrated. The applicability of the functional programming style to the Activation FrameworL a paradigm for intelligent systems, is then briefly described.

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تاریخ انتشار 1989