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Reliability, availability and serviceability

Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS), also known as reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM), is a computer hardware engineering term involving reliability engineering, high availability, and serviceability design. The phrase was originally used by IBM as a term to describe the robustness of their mainframe computers.

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Reliability, availability and serviceability

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Reliability, availability and serviceability → Always-on Enterprise, Archived December, Aspects, Availability, Chapter, Daniel Henderson, Family, Features Archived, February, George Ahrens, IBM, IBM Corp, Intel Corp, Intel Xeon Processor E7, Itanium, Itanium Reliability, Jim Mitchell, Maximizing Application Reliability, Oracle’s SPARC M5-32, Overview

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system ras availability systems processor faults hardware features reliability data errors failure serviceability intermittent operating error components time redundant instruction

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metal electromigration or dielectric breakdown.Temporary faults include transientinstance ofPermanent faults lead to a continuing error and are typically due to some physical failure0.80text
intermittent faults.Transientinstance ofPermanent faults lead to a continuing error and are typically due to some physical failure0.80text
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksItanium Reliability0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksAvailability0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksServiceability0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksRAS0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksFeatures Archived0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksWayback Machine Overview0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksItanium0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksPOWER7 System RAS Key0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksAspects0.60section
Reliability, availability and serviceabilityrelated to External linksPower Systems Reliability0.60section

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