The Part-Time Parliament
Technical report by Leslie Lamport characterising a reliability issue in distributed networks in terms of a fictional parliament's consitution.
Algebraic Topology and Concurrency
Reports applying methods in algebraic topology to concurrent computation. Maintained by Stefan Sokolowski.
A Historical Note on `Geometry and Concurrency'
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 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
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