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PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
2010
ACM
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
HPCC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
2009
Springer
Compared with lock-based synchronization techniques, Software Transactional Memory (STM) can significantly improve the programmability of multithreaded applications. Existing res...
MASCOTS
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Commercial servers, such as database or application servers, often attempt to improve performance via multithreading. Improper multi-threading architectures can incur contention, ...
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Modern Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) provide sufficiently flexible programming models that understanding their performance can provide insight in designing tomorrow’s manyco...
PPOPP
1999
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1999
ACM
The use of threads is becoming commonplace in both sequential and parallel programs. This paper describes our design and initial experience with non-trace based performance instru...