Basic Computer Science

Process coordination in a multitasking OS  –       Race condition: several processes access and manipulate the same…

Instead of synchronizing clocks, event ordering can be used If two events occurred at the…

Causal ordering is a vital tool for thinking about distributed systems. Once you understand it,…

A multicast operation is more appropriate – this is an operation that sends a single message from…

Designed and implemented by Lampson and colleagues at the DEC Systems Research Center (1986) Provide…

 Two models of synchronization 1) External synchronization  2) Internal synchronization  External synchronization: a computer‘s clock Ci is synchronized…

Each process executes on a single processor, and the processors do not share memory (Chapter…

Interactions within a Distributed System between 2 processes, P1 and P2. Distributed systems offer us…

It is often desirable to determine whether a particular property is true of a distributed…

Distributed computing is a model in which components of a software system are shared among…