How fast can a distributed atomic read be?

Partha Dutta, Rachid Guerraoui, Ron R. Levy, Arindam Chakraborty. How fast can a distributed atomic read be?. In Soma Chaudhuri, Shay Kutten, editors, Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2004, St. John s, Newfoundland, Canada, July 25-28, 2004. pages 236-245, ACM, 2004. [doi]

@inproceedings{DuttaGLC04,
  title = {How fast can a distributed atomic read be?},
  author = {Partha Dutta and Rachid Guerraoui and Ron R. Levy and Arindam Chakraborty},
  year = {2004},
  doi = {10.1145/1011767.1011802},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1011767.1011802},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/DuttaGLC04},
  cites = {0},
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  pages = {236-245},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2004, St. John s, Newfoundland, Canada, July 25-28, 2004},
  editor = {Soma Chaudhuri and Shay Kutten},
  publisher = {ACM},
  isbn = {1-58113-802-4},
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