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PLDI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Parallelizing sequential applications on commodity hardware using a low-cost software transactional memory
Multicore designs have emerged as the mainstream design paradigm for the microprocessor industry. Unfortunately, providing multiple cores does not directly translate into performa...
Mojtaba Mehrara, Jeff Hao, Po-Chun Hsu, Scott A. M...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Hardware support for spin management in overcommitted virtual machines
Multiprocessor operating systems (OSs) pose several unique and conflicting challenges to System Virtual Machines (System VMs). For example, most existing system VMs resort to gan...
Philip M. Wells, Koushik Chakraborty, Gurindar S. ...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
159views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
Copy or Discard execution model for speculative parallelization on multicores
The advent of multicores presents a promising opportunity for speeding up sequential programs via profile-based speculative parallelization of these programs. In this paper we pr...
Chen Tian, Min Feng, Vijay Nagarajan, Rajiv Gupta
ISCA
2010
IEEE
239views Hardware» more  ISCA 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
Sentry: light-weight auxiliary memory access control
Light-weight, flexible access control, which allows software to regulate reads and writes to any granularity of memory region, can help improve the reliability of today’s multi...
Arrvindh Shriraman, Sandhya Dwarkadas
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Addressing shared resource contention in multicore processors via scheduling
Contention for shared resources on multicore processors remains an unsolved problem in existing systems despite significant research efforts dedicated to this problem in the past...
Sergey Zhuravlev, Sergey Blagodurov, Alexandra Fed...