M.I.T. DEPARTMENT OF EECS

6.033 - Computer System Engineering Lecture 24 - Friday, May 7, 2004
Note: This lecture was originally scheduled for Monday, 5/3/04, but was moved to Wednesday, 5/5/04, because of the power failure on Monday.

Read section E of chapter 9. In this lecture, Professor Sam Madden will discuss how to achieve atomicity in actions involving multiple sites distributed across a network. The key idea is a two-phase commit protocol.

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