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PODC
1994
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Checkpoint Protocol for an Entry Consistent Shared Memory System
Workstation clusters are becoming an interesting alternative to dedicated multiprocessors. In this environment, the probability of a failure, during an application's executio...
Nuno Neves, Miguel Castro, Paulo Guedes
PODC
1994
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Using Belief to Reason about Cache Coherence
The notion of belief has been useful in reasoning about authentication protocols. In this paper, we show how the notion of belief can be applied to reasoning about cache coherence...
Lily B. Mummert, Jeannette M. Wing, Mahadev Satyan...
PODC
1994
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
A Performance Evaluation of Lock-Free Synchronization Protocols
In this paper, we investigate the practical performance of lock-free techniques that provide synchronization on shared-memory multiprocessors. Our goal is to provide a technique t...
Anthony LaMarca
PODC
1994
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Open Systems in TLA
We describe a method for writing assumption/guarantee specifications of concurrent systems. We also provide a proof rule for reasoning about the composition of these systems. Spec...
Martín Abadi, Leslie Lamport