Equation 7 · AI Accelerator Architecture in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
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The staffing and inventory implication follows directly: staged spares reduce mean time to repair, and mean time to repair is exactly as load-bearing in the availability term A as mean time to failure is. A cluster with excellent hardware reliability but a slow spares and dispatch process will show the same effective availability as a less reliable cluster with fast repair, because A is a function of the ratio between the two, not of either one alone.
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