Failure-Spotter Project

The increasing dependency of business and society on the correct functioning of the information technology infrastructure results in the need for more and more dependable computing systems. In the past few years, the number and the diversity of applications with some dependability requirement (e.g. reliability, availability, security, safety, performability, etc) is steadily increasing. Meeting these requirements, in turn, normally calls for providing the applications and their execution environments with mechanisms that are able to tackle the possible faults that may affect the system. Also, when applications and services execute over widely distributed, opened, heterogeneous systems such as the emerging peer-to-peer and grid systems, they must be able to adapt themselves to the fluctuations on the availability of computing, communication and information resources, at the expense of not being able to fulfill their missions appropriately.

The Failure-Spotter Project is a collaborative effort involving the Distributed Systems Lab of Universidade Federal de Campina Grande and HP Brazil R&D to research dependability and adaptability issues in distributed systems.