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Because fault failures tend to affect whole areas, in some cases, and not only individual computers, we propose a new, efficient scheduling algorithm for problems in which tasks with precedence constraints and communication delays have to be scheduled on a virtual heterogeneous distributed multi areas system subject to the possibility of one complete area failure. Based on an extension of the critical-path...