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By: David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com), September 2, 2007 7:55 pm

Konrad Schwarz (no.spam@no.spam) on 9/2/07 wrote:
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>Hi,
>
>you make frequent reference to EV7 and I see Brannon Batson's >name in the patent
>list. Would you have any (more) indication that Lamport's >Temporal Logic of Actions
>was used to validate the cache coherency protocol (or other >parts)? I would like to know how well it fares in practice.

So, I can't really answer this question. However, Brannon wrote a paper with Leslie Lamport that discusses this:

http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/27523/http:zSzzSzresearch.microsoft.comzSzuserszSzlamportzSzpubszSzhigh-level.pdf/batson03highlevel.pdf

Perhaps you can get Brannon to share some thoughts on this paper...

DK

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Body:	No Text David Kanter (dkanter.delete@this.realworldtech.com) on September 2, 2007 7:55 pm wrote: > Konrad Schwarz (no.spam@no.spam) on 9/2/07 wrote: > --------------------------- > >Hi, > > > >you make frequent reference to EV7 and I see Brannon Batson's >name in the patent > >list. Would you have any (more) indication that Lamport's >Temporal Logic of Actions > >was used to validate the cache coherency protocol (or other >parts)? > I would like to know how well it fares in practice. > > So, I can't really answer this question. However, Brannon > wrote a paper with Leslie Lamport that discusses this: > > <a href=http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/27523/http:zSzzSzresearch.microsoft.comzSzuserszSzlamportzSzpubszSzhigh-level.pdf/batson03highlevel.pdf target=_blank>http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/27523/http:zSzzSzresearch.microsoft.comzSzuserszSzlamportzSzpubszSzhigh-level.pdf/batson03highlevel.pdf</a> > > Perhaps you can get Brannon to share some thoughts on this paper... > > DK
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