Memory Consistency

Memory Consistency is a formal model that specifies the constraints on the order in which memory operations from multiple processors or threads must appear to execute, ensuring predictable and coherent shared memory behavior in parallel computing systems.

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Citations

1.3K

Authors

328

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2017–2026

140

Variants

Memory Consistency Model

Parents

Computer Architecture

Children

AtomicityCausal ConsistencyCompiler Memory ReorderingConsistency VerificationData-race FreedomDistributed Shared Memory ConsistencyFence InstructionsHappens-before RelationLinearizabilityLoad Reordering

Publications

672

Memory coherence in shared virtual memory systems

Kai Li, Paul Hudak · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 1989 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +17

Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial

Sarita V. Adve, Kourosh Gharachorloo · Computer · 1996 · 1.1K citations

Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Systems +16

Memory consistency and event ordering in scalable shared-memory multiprocessors

Kourosh Gharachorloo, Daniel Lenoski, James Laudon et al. · 1998 · 1K citations

Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +17

Mnemosyne

Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Michael M. Swift · 2011 · 723 citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +16

Implementation and performance of Munin

John B. Carter, John K. Bennett, Willy Zwaenepoel · 1991 · 691 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +17

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Authors

1.3K

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Sarita V. Adve
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States
19 publications · 3.1K citations
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Kourosh Gharachorloo
Stanford University, United States
19 publications · 5.3K citations
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Viktor Vafeiadis
Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
16 publications · 790 citations
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Daniel J. Sorin
Duke University, United States
17 publications · 1.2K citations
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Willy Zwaenepoel
Rice University, United States
13 publications · 2.1K citations
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328

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Venues

ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News
31 publications · 3.6K citations
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ACM SIGPLAN Notices
21 publications · 604 citations
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Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
PACMPL · 13 publications · 442 citations
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IEEE Transactions on Computers
13 publications · 662 citations
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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
6 publications · 452 citations
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