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Time, clocks and the ordering of events in a distributed system

Time, clocks and the ordering of events in a distributed systemL. Lamport, Communications ACM 1978 SummaryThe paper introduces the happened-before relation and logical clocks to define a consistent partial ordering of events in a distributed system. ...

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