All instructions are executed in order.
Every write operation becomes instantaneously visible throughout the system.
Implicit in the definition of sequential consistency was the acknowledgement that SMP systems could fail to be sequentially consistent. From the vantage point of almost twenty years later, the answers are mixed. At the University of Wisconsin, Doug Burger and Mark Hill have created The WWW Computer Architecture Home Page . David A. Bader provides an IEEE listing of parallel computing sites . Bringing you the best technology specific search engines.