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Logical Synchrony and the Bittide Mechanism

Abstract

We introduce logical synchrony, a framework that allows distributed computing to be coordinated as tightly as with pure synchrony without the distribution of a global clock or any reference to a universal time. We describe and prove the main properties of the framework and point to how processes can be executed on a logically synchronous system.

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