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a processor model that on failure halts, with its halted state detectable by others and its stable storage preserved, used to design fault-tolerant systems.

In distributed systems, fail-stop processor refers to a processor model that on failure halts, with its halted state detectable by others and its stable storage preserved, used to design fault-tolerant systems. This meaning comes from Schlichting (1983) in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.[1]

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References

Schlichting, R. D., & Schneider, F. B. (1983). Fail-stop processors. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 1(3), 222-238. https://doi.org/10.1145/357369.357371

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