Lazy replication: exploiting the semantics of distributed services
PODC '90 Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
Transparent fault tolerance for distributed Ada applications
TRI-Ada '94 Proceedings of the conference on TRI-Ada '94
Global flush communication primitive for inter-process communication
PODC '94 Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
Large causality: ordering broadcasts and messages
EW 5 Proceedings of the 5th workshop on ACM SIGOPS European workshop: Models and paradigms for distributed systems structuring
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A new protocol is presented that efficiently implements a reliable, causally ordered multicast primitive and is easily extended into a totally ordered one. Intended for use in the ISIS toolkit, it offers a way to bypass the most costly aspects of ISIS while benefiting from virtual synchrony. The facility scales with bounded overhead. Measured speedups of more than an order of magnitude were obtained when the protocol was implemented within ISIS. One conclusion is that systems such as ISIS can achieve performance competitive with the best existing multicast facilities a finding contradicting the widespread concern that fault-tolerance may be unacceptably costly.