A Unified Theory of Shared Memory Consistency

dc.creatorSteinke, Robert C.
dc.creatorNutt, Gary J.
dc.date2002-08-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-26T00:02:30Z
dc.descriptionMemory consistency models have been developed to specify what values may be returned by a read given that, in a distributed system, memory operations may only be partially ordered. Before this work, consistency models were defined independently. Each model followed a set of rules which was separate from the rules of every other model. In our work we have defined a set of four consistency properties. Any subset of the four properties yields a set of rules which constitute a consistency model. Every consistency model previously described in the literature can be defined based on our four properties. Therefore, we present these properties as a unfied theory of shared memory consistency.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0208027
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0208027
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.dare.co.zw/handle/123456789/103574
dc.subjectDistributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
dc.subjectD.1.3;F.1.2
dc.titleA Unified Theory of Shared Memory Consistency
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