A Historical Note on `Geometry and Concurrency&apo
Online report by Eric Goubault, surveying the field from its prehistory in terms of classical interleaving and non-interleaving analyses of concurrency, through to modern applications of simplicial sets to fault tolerant computation.
Algebraic Topology and Concurrency
Reports applying methods in algebraic topology to concurrent computation. Maintained by Stefan Sokolowski.
Algebraic Topology and Distributed Computing
Powerpoint tutorials by Maurice Herlihy at Brown University.
Scientific American: Computers without Clocks
Asynchronous chips improve computer performance by Ivan E. Sutherland and Jo Ebergen
The Part-Time Parliament
Technical report by Leslie Lamport characterising a reliability issue in distributed networks in terms of a fictional parliament's consitution.