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CGO
2009
IEEE
14 years 13 days ago
Fast Track: A Software System for Speculative Program Optimization
—Fast track is a software speculation system that enables unsafe optimization of sequential code. It speculatively runs optimized code to improve performance and then checks the ...
Kirk Kelsey, Tongxin Bai, Chen Ding, Chengliang Zh...
ISCA
2010
IEEE
189views Hardware» more  ISCA 2010»
13 years 10 months ago
RETCON: transactional repair without replay
Over the past decade there has been a surge of academic and industrial interest in optimistic concurrency, i.e. the speculative parallel execution of code regions that have the se...
Colin Blundell, Arun Raghavan, Milo M. K. Martin
ICPP
2009
IEEE
14 years 8 days ago
Code Semantic-Aware Runahead Threads
Memory-intensive threads can hoard shared resources without making progress on a multithreading processor (SMT), thereby hindering the overall system performance. A recent promisi...
Tanausú Ramírez, Alex Pajuelo, Olive...
ICDE
2005
IEEE
124views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 7 months ago
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Repairable Database Management System
Although conventional database management systems are designed to tolerate hardware and to a lesser extent even software errors, they cannot protect themselves against syntactical...
Tzi-cker Chiueh, Dhruv Pilania