Guerraoui, RachidKapalka, MichalKouznetsov, Petr2006-09-222006-09-222006-09-22200610.1007/11864219_28https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/234130This paper determines necessary and sufficient conditions to implement wait-free and non-blocking contention managers in a shared memory system. The necessary conditions hold even when universal objects (like compare-and-swap) or random oracles are available, whereas the sufficient ones assume only registers. We show that failure detector <>P is the weakest to convert any obstruction-free algorithm into a wait-free one, and Omega*, a new failure detector which we introduce in this paper, and which is strictly weaker than <>P but strictly stronger than Omega, is the weakest to convert any obstruction-free algorithm into a non-blocking one.text::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper