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IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
JudoSTM: A Dynamic Binary-Rewriting Approach to Software Transactional Memory
With the advent of chip-multiprocessors, we are faced with the challenge of parallelizing performance-critical software. Transactional memory (TM) has emerged as a promising progr...
Marek Olszewski, Jeremy Cutler, J. Gregory Steffan
SPAA
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Transactions in the jungle
Transactional memory (TM) has shown potential to simplify the task of writing concurrent programs. Inspired by classical work on databases, formal definitions of the semantics of...
Rachid Guerraoui, Thomas A. Henzinger, Michal Kapa...
SPAA
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Simplifying concurrent algorithms by exploiting hardware transactional memory
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...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Locks: Combining Transactions and Locks for Efficient Concurrency
Transactional memory is being advanced as an alternative to traditional lock-based synchronization for concurrent programming. Transactional memory simplifies the programming mode...
Takayuki Usui, Reimer Behrends, Jacob Evans, Yanni...
ISCA
2006
IEEE
125views Hardware» more  ISCA 2006»
13 years 10 months ago
Architectural Semantics for Practical Transactional Memory
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by allowing for parallel execution of atomic tasks. Thus far, TM systems have focused on implementing transactional stat...
Austen McDonald, JaeWoong Chung, Brian D. Carlstro...