DSM-PM2 is a platform for designing, implementing and experimenting multithreaded DSM consistency protocols. It provides a generic toolbox which facilitates protocol design and allows for easy experimentation with alternative protocols for a given consistency model. DSM-PM2 is portable across a wide range of clusters. We illustrate its power with figures obtained for different protocols impleme...

This paper proposes a transparent selective sequential consistency approach to Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems. First, three basic techniques | time selection, processor selection, and data selection { are analyzed for improving the performance of strictly sequential consistency DSM systems, and a transparent approach to achieving these selections is proposed. Then, this paper focuses o...

Many consistency criteria have been considered in databases and the causal consistency is one of them. The causal consistency model has gained much attention in recent years because it provides ordering of relative operations. The causal consistency requires that all writes, which are potentially causally related, must be seen in the same order by all processes. The causal consistency is a weak...