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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2005
David L. Bernick, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
William F. Bruckert, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David J. Garcia, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert L. Jardine, Cupertino, CA (US);
James S. Klecka, Georgetown, TX (US);
Pankaj Mehra, San Jose, CA (US);
James R. Smullen, Carmel, CA (US);
David L. Bernick, Ben Lomond, CA (US);
William F. Bruckert, Los Gatos, CA (US);
David J. Garcia, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Robert L. Jardine, Cupertino, CA (US);
James S. Klecka, Georgetown, TX (US);
Pankaj Mehra, San Jose, CA (US);
James R. Smullen, Carmel, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method and system of loosely lock-stepped non-deterministic processors. Some exemplary embodiments may be a processor-based method comprising executing fault tolerant copies of a user program, one copy of the user program executed in a first processor performing non-deterministic execution, and a duplicate copy of the user program executing in a second processor performing non-deterministic execution, with the executing in the first processor and second processor not in cycle-by-cycle lock-stepped.