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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2004
Kimberly Keeton, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cipriano A. Santos, Modesto, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Arif Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Chase, Durham, NC (US);
Kimberly Keeton, San Francisco, CA (US);
John Wilkes, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Cipriano A. Santos, Modesto, CA (US);
Dirk Beyer, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Arif Merchant, Los Altos, CA (US);
Jeffrey Scott Chase, Durham, NC (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A configuration method includes selecting a design configuration, and modeling the solution configuration having a failure event for the selected solution configuration to determine an amount of down time associated with the failure event. A first penalty cost function is applied the amount of down time to determine a first penalty cost associated with the failure event of the selected solution configuration.