Towards achieving relentless reliability gains in a server marketplace of teraflops, laptops, kilowatts, & "cost, cost, cost" ... (making peace between a black art and the bottom line)
J. Van Horn · 2006
As we are catapulted into the maelstrom of 21st century server class teraflops, kilowatts, "1000 way" integration, Maturity at Birth TTM pounding, and screaming cost pressure - reliance on the rote, sequential, and evolutionary legacy processes to attain marketplace quality & reliability (Q&R) demands position test & reliability as the impediment to maintaining the industry's rate of advancement. Test and screens effectiveness erosion, insatiable customer expectations (reliability) and demands (function), perpetual revolutionary technology advancements, and the juggernaut of system integration, pose ominous threats to meeting the system reliability demands of the future. Full integration at day 1 and end2end reliability solutions are foundational to successfully exceeding marketplace Q&R expectations in the 21st century