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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2005
Filed:
May. 25, 2001
Guillermo Alvarez, San Jose, CA (US);
Ralph Becker-szendy, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Arif A. Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mustafa Uysal, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Guillermo Alvarez, San Jose, CA (US);
Ralph Becker-Szendy, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Arif A. Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mustafa Uysal, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of and apparatus for determining whether a multi-component target system meets a given multi-part performability requirement is provided. A description of the target system, failure probabilities for components of the target system and a multi-part performability requirement for the target system are obtained. The multi-part performability requirement indicates desired performance levels and corresponding fractions of time. One or more failure-scenarios are successively computed that represent one or more states of the target system having zero or more components failed and a corresponding probability of occurrence of the one or more of the states of the target system. Performance of the target system is modeled under the failure scenarios using a performance predictor module for generating a multi-part performability function. The multi-part performability function is compared with said multi-part performability requirement to determine whether the target system meets the multi-part performability requirement.