Failure detector
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In distributed computing
, a failure detector is an application or a subsystem that is responsible for detection of node failures or crashes in a distributed system.
Distributed computing
Distributed computing is a field of computer science that studies distributed systems. A distributed system consists of multiple autonomous computers that communicate through a computer network. The computers interact with each other in order to achieve a common goal...
, a failure detector is an application or a subsystem that is responsible for detection of node failures or crashes in a distributed system.