IBM Intelligent Bricks - - UNM Center for Advanced Research ...

Brick Architectures for Simplicity (2)• Long-lived, public interfaces– Network protocol, Physical, Interfaces,– Careful architecture work required to define ‘families’ of interoperablebricks and relations between families• Bricks should be low cost (use commodity components)– Minimize redundancy within a brick– Deal with failures at a higher, system level• Any brick must be allowed to fail without noticeably impactingsystem operation, as long as ‘most’ of the bricks are alive– System software must deal with and hide the failure– “Fail-in-place’ a natural extensionARC External Website, Intelligent Bricks, 2005