Transactional Memory (TM) provides mechanisms that promise to simplify parallel programming by eliminating the need for locks and their associated problems (deadlock, livelock, pr...
Hassan Chafi, Jared Casper, Brian D. Carlstrom, Au...
Abstract--Version management, one of the key design dimensions of Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) systems, defines where and how transactional modifications are stored. Current...
Marc Lupon, Grigorios Magklis, Antonio Gonzá...
—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
There has been considerable recent interest in the support of transactional memory (TM) in both hardware and software. We present an intermediate approach, in which hardware is us...
Arrvindh Shriraman, Michael F. Spear, Hemayet Hoss...
The optimistic nature of Transactional Memory (TM) systems can lead to the concurrent execution of transactions that are later found to conflict. Conflicts degrade scalability, a...