Commercial applications such as databases and Web servers constitute the largest and fastest-growing segment of the market for multiprocessor servers. Ongoing innovations in disk ...
Transactional memory is an attractive design concept for scalable multiprocessors because it offers efficient lock-free synchronization and greatly simplifies parallel software....
The adoption of transactional memory is hindered by the high overhead of software transactional memory and the intrusive design changes required by previously proposed TM hardware...
Jared Casper, Tayo Oguntebi, Sungpack Hong, Nathan...
We explore the potential of hardware transactional memory (HTM) to improve concurrent algorithms. We illustrate a number of use cases in which HTM enables significantly simpler c...
Dave Dice, Yossi Lev, Virendra J. Marathe, Mark Mo...
Contention management is an important design component to a transactional memory system. Without effective contention management to ensure forward progress, a transactional memory...
Geoffrey Blake, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor N. Mu...