Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System with Ciju

Available at: http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/time-clocks.pdf

As a summary, here is a quote from Leslie's website, about the paper (http://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#time-clocks):
"...an algorithm for totally ordering events could be used to implement any distributed system. A distributed system can be described as a particular sequential state machine that is implemented with a network of processors. The ability to totally order the input requests leads immediately to an algorithm to implement an arbitrary state machine by a network of processors, and hence to implement any distributed system. So, I wrote this paper, which is about how to implement an arbitrary distributed state machine. As an illustration, I used the simplest example of a distributed system I could think of--a distributed mutual exclusion algorithm. "

Please do try to read the paper beforehand. Might help with all of us getting more out of the discussion :)