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030001T306052002

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Answer any two full questions, each carries 20 marks.
Explain Maekawa's voting algorithm for mutual exclusion.

Differentiate message passing and DSM

Explain problem of consensus.

Explain the concept of CORBA 1۰

Summarize how release consistency reduce distributed shared memory
overheads.

What are the different categories of failure detectors? Compare detection

mechanisms.

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