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CS258: Reading Assignment #17
Due Wednesday, April 16



The reading assignment for Wednesday, for CS 258 is to read the following two paper:
  1. Closing the window of vulnerability in multiphase memory transactions, John Kubiatowicz, David Chaiken, Anant Agarwal. In Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems (ASPLOS) 1992.
  2. Timestamp snooping: an approach for extending SMPs,   Milo M. K. Martin, David A. Wood, Daniel J. Sorin, Anatassia Ailamaki, Alaa R. Alameldeen, Ross M. Dickson, Carl J. Mauer, Kevin E. Moore, Manoj Plakal, and Mark D. Hill, In Proceedings of the Ninth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems, 2000
You 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.
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