The Register: NEC Unveils Fault-Tolerant Linux Server

“Tokyo, Japan-based NEC’s two-way Intel Corp processor-based
dual redundancy server uses the same hardware architecture as
Stratus’s ftServer and its own Express5800 Windows fault-tolerant
servers. The architecture enables all processing and I/O commands
to run on redundant components in lockstep with fault-tolerant
failover in the case of module failure.

“The product’s Linux operating system is based on Red Hat Inc’s
Linux 7.1 but features ‘significant changes’ to the kernel, device
drivers, storage management and memory management to enable it to
support the fault tolerant features. NEC’s UK business development
director, Paul Evans, stated that the modifications made to the
Linux operating system would be released to the open source
community via NEC’s involvement in the OSDL Open Source Development
Lab…”

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