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CS258: Reading Assignment #10
Due Monday, March 10



The reading assignment for Monday for CS 258 is to read the following two papers:
  1. Weak Ordering - A New Definition, S.V. Adve and M.D. Hill, Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture, May 1990. See ISCA Retrospective
  2. Memory Consistency and Event Ordering in Scalable Shared-Memory  Multiprocessors, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Daniel Lenoski, James Laudon, Phillip Gibbons, Anoop Gupta, and  John Hennessy,  Proceedings of the International symposium on Computer Architecture, 1990. See ISCA Retrospective
Your must also:

Write one paragraph about each paper. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.  These papers are dense, so get started very early!

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