View-based Consistency for Distributed Shared Memory

This paper proposes a novel View-based Consistency model for Distributed Shared Memory. A view is a set of data objects that a processor has the right to access in a data-race-free program. The View-based Consistency model requires that the data objects of a view are updated only before a processor accesses them. Compared with other memory consistency models, the View-based Consistency model can achieve data selection without user annotation and the performance advantage, though the supporting implementation techniques need to be further explored.