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Patent No.:

US 8117496 B1

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Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2009
Applicants:

Ahmed M. Bashir, San Jose, CA (US);

Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);

Soumitra Sarkar, Cary, NC (US);

Mark J. Seaman, San Jose, CA (US);

Dinesh K. Subhraveti, Milpitas, CA (US);

Victor S. Wen, Berkeley, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ahmed M. Bashir, San Jose, CA (US);

Prasenjit Sarkar, San Jose, CA (US);

Soumitra Sarkar, Cary, NC (US);

Mark J. Seaman, San Jose, CA (US);

Dinesh K. Subhraveti, Milpitas, CA (US);

Victor S. Wen, Berkeley, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, system, and article for resolving a silent error is disclosed. A primary program copy runs on a primary host, and a secondary program copy runs on a secondary host. The primary and secondary copies communicate to maintain synchronized execution. A third copy of the data is stored on a storage device as a write operations log and maintained in memory on the primary host while the program is running. The primary copy is synchronized with the secondary copy by computing a first checksum of data on the primary host in response to a read operation local to the primary host, computing a second checksum of data on the secondary host in response to a read operation local to the secondary host, and periodically communicating the first checksum to the secondary host, and resolving any discrepancies between the first and second checksum of data reflecting a silent data error.


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