Re: Lamport clocks and special relativity: I don't think Lamport makes it sufficiently clear that the SR analogy is just an analogy and is not physically releva

Re: Lamport clocks and special relativity: I don't think Lamport makes it sufficiently clear that the SR analogy is just an analogy and is not physically relevant. It is perfectly valid to treat the computers in a datacenter as a single inertial reference frame, with a natural notion of simultaneity. (Geo-distributed clocks can still be synchronized, since the Schwarzschild solution defines spacelike hypersurfaces with constant time coordinate.) Logical clocks (which totally order events consistent with their causal relations) are useful (because synchronization is hard), but not physically necessary (because synchronization is possible).