The Transis approach to high availability cluster communication
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 39 (4) , 64-70
- https://doi.org/10.1145/227210.227227
Abstract
IntroductionIn the local elections system of the municipality of "Wiredville"1, several computers were used toestablish an electronic town hall. The computers were linked by a network. When an issue wasput to a vote, voters could manually feed their votes into any of the computers, which replicatedthe updates to all of the other computers. Whenever the current tally was desired, any computercould be used to supply an up-to-the-moment count.On the night of an important election, a...Keywords
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