This pdf file contains the 38-page "manifesto" that argues that the complexity of current computing systems has begun to outpace the capabilities of human administrators to cope with them. It proposes a solution in the form of Autonomic Computing, based on self-management.

This article touches on solutions to the question raised by IBM's "manifesto" that are currently being researched by various universities and corporations, including IBM's Oceano experiment, Hewlett-Packard Lab's planetary computing project, and David Patterson of UC Berkeley's "Recovery-Oriented Computing" (ROC).

This article describes the Farsite project at Microsoft Corporation that embodies fault tolerance, self-tuning, and robust security. It also includes short descriptions of the Odyssey project at Carnegie Mellon University and the IBM Blue Gene research project.

This packet contains an intro on fault-tolerance computing, and gives some definitions regarding the subject.

Microsoft white paper on fault-tolerant servers, specifically focusing on their Windows product. Good background reading for what fault tolerance is.

This website provides an overview, recent news, contact information, and many publications regarding the Recovery-Oriented Computing project, which is headed mainly by UC Berkeley’s David Patterson and Stanford’s Armando Fox.

This site consists of lecture slides from George Candea’s CS444 course, entitled Principles of Dependable Computer Systems. It mainly focuses on Tandem’s Guardian operating system.

This site provides a general overview of the life of Tandem computers from 1970s to the present and their main product, called Nonstop, that is still in existence at Hewlett-Packard.

Product page for HP's NonStop computing division.