SIGDA newsletter, vol 17, number Tile conclusions drawn were that these packages should have better documentation and that there should be improved communication between researchers and users. With regards to the accuracy of the model, it was suggested that these models use worst case estimates so that the reliability predicted are really m i n i m u m values rather than typical. With this however there" is a danger of grossly over designing the system, and this in fact happens in todays aircrafts. The highlight of the conference was a tour of the CMU Campus. Faculty and students gave presentations and demonstrations of different research projects. Dr. Kung described and demonstrated WARP - a systolic array processor. It consists of a linear array of 10 processors each running at 20 MIPS giving a total of 200 MIPS peak performance. Another interesting project was PIE - a parallel programming environment that frees the user from taking low level implementation decisions that can adversely impact performance. The next conference, FTCS-18. is to be held in Tokyo, Japan. A REPORT on The Seventeenth International Symposium for Fault Tolerant Computing Pittsburgh, PA July 6 - July 8. by Shishpal Rawat Department
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