Questions tagged [clocks]
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What is 2g-precedence?
I am currently reading a couple of papers about event processing. In the context of ordering events, "2g-precedence" is frequently mentioned. I don't know what it is, and I cannot find much ...
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Finding the timestamps of processes implementing Lamport's clocks
I have been asked this question, but don't know how to go about answering it.
Three process, which are implementing Lamport's clocks, are running and a lot of events are taking, place including some ...
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Can a distributed system designed with logical clocks truly derive a total ordering of events?
I’m reading Leslie Lamport’s white paper, “Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system”. His explanation for total ordering has me a bit confused in the following excerpt.
I've ...
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What is time stamp in asynchronous transmission?
I am new to CS, and learning asynchronous transmission.
Asynchronous Transmission typically also uses SYNC word/bits to
provide occasional time stamp for receiver to synchronise its clock to
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Processor system synchronization?
Processor has the internal clock which is a multiplier of the main clock which is present on the motherboard which is designed by keeping in mind the critical path and the slowest device on board,
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Design of a synchronized clock
I was living in a country where Internet wasn't that fast so the younger me had the following idea for compressing data
Let say 2 parties want to send data to each other, we know that data can be ...
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Understanding leslie lamport's spacetime diagram with tick lines
I am trying to understand tick lines in Fig 2 on Page 2 of "Time, Clocks, and the
Ordering of Events in a Distributed System" paper [1]. Below are 2 things which I did not understand
What is the ...
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