Increasing customer demand for reliability, fierce market competition on time-to-market and cost, and highly reliable products are making reliability testing more challenging task.
The report's top recommendation was to make reliability rules mandatory and enforceable -- a change requiring federal legislation.
And that ultimately, very quickly, within a week or less, got put into a plan called the Go Forward Plan, which was a market plan called Fly to Win, a financial plan called Fund the Future, a product plan called Make Reliability a Reality, and a people plan called Working Together.
While building and programming a robot, one should make reliability the first priority.
On new products, failure rates are determined under accelerated conditions, and used to make reliability predictions.
Last year Gates outlined his "Trustworthy Computing Initiative" in a memo to employees, urging them to make reliability and security their primary goals.
However, HPC applications have rigorous requirements on execution correctness, which makes reliability a growing concern in GPGPU architecture design.
