Classical dependability techniques & modern computing systems -- Hardware error detection through hardware implemented techniques -- Processor-level error detection and recovery -- Hardware error detection through software implemented techniques -- Software error detection and recovery through software analysis -- Measurement-based analysis of system software operating system failure behavior : overview -- Reliable networked and distributed systems -- Checkpointing and rollback error recovery -- Dependability in large-scale systems -- Measurement-based analysis of large scale clusters -- Internals of fault injection techniques -- Safeguarding current technologies.