Is it possible to quantify the fault tolerance of distributed/parallel computer systems

Dalibor F. Vrsalovic, Zary Segall, Jim Ready. Is it possible to quantify the fault tolerance of distributed/parallel computer systems. In Intellectual Leverage: Thirty-Fifth IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Compcon Spring '90, San Francisco, California, USA, February 26 - March 2, 1992, Digest of Papers. pages 219-225, IEEE, 1990. [doi]

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  title = {Is it possible to quantify the fault tolerance of distributed/parallel computer systems},
  author = {Dalibor F. Vrsalovic and Zary Segall and Jim Ready},
  year = {1990},
  doi = {10.1109/CMPCON.1990.63679},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1990.63679},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/VrsalovicSR90},
  cites = {0},
  citedby = {0},
  pages = {219-225},
  booktitle = {Intellectual Leverage: Thirty-Fifth IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Compcon Spring '90, San Francisco, California, USA, February 26 - March 2, 1992, Digest of Papers},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  isbn = {0-8186-2028-5},
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