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sponsored by APC
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06 Feb 2008
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Published:
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01 Jan 2005
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PDF
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Length:
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10
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Type:
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White Paper
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Language:
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English
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ABSTRACT:
Applying classic, simple reliability analysis to this new way of doing things (more parts equals greater risk of failure) is at best incomplete, at worst misleading. The mission of this paper is to illustrate, through case studies, how modularity not only delivers its more obvious and easily understood benefits but also its most subtle, least understood, and profound reliability benefit: fault tolerance. The inherent fault tolerance of modular design provides a powerful new defense against failure, introducing into complex systems a strategy for reliability that is not only adequate, but superior.
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Authors
Neil Rasmussen
Chief Technical Officer
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American Power Conversion
Neil Rasmussen is a founder and the Chief Technical Officer of American Power Conversion. At APC, Neil directs the world’s largest R&D budget devoted to power, cooling, and rack infrastructure for critical networks, with principal product development centers in Massachusetts, Missouri, Denmark, Rhode Island, Taiwan, and Ireland. Neil is currently leading the effort at APC to develop modular scalable data center solutions.
Suzanne Niles
White Paper author with NCPI Science Center
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American Power Conversion
Suzanne Niles is a white paper author with APC’s NCPI Science Center. She studied mathematics at Wellesley College and received a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from MIT, with a thesis on handwritten character recognition. She has been educating diverse audiences for over 25 years using a variety of media from software manuals to photography and children’s songs.
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