A fault-tolerant system that processes transactions for a financial services firm uses
Chapter 3, Problem 3-111(choose chapter or problem)
A fault-tolerant system that processes transactions for a financial services firm uses three separate computers. If the operating computer fails, one of the two spares can be immediately switched online. After the second computer fails, the last computer can be immediately switched online. Assume that the probability of a failure during any transaction is and that the transactions can be considered to be independent events. (a) What is the mean number of transactions before all computers have failed? (b) What is the variance of the number of transactions before all computers have failed?
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