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ICDCN
2012
Springer
12 years 24 days ago
Lifting the Barriers - Reducing Latencies with Transparent Transactional Memory
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
Annette Bieniusa, Thomas Fuhrmann
DLS
2009
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13 years 3 months ago
Context-oriented software transactional memory in common lisp
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising approach for coordinating concurrent threads, for which many implementation strategies are currently being researched. Although ...
Pascal Costanza, Charlotte Herzeel, Theo D'Hondt
HIPC
2009
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Integrating and optimizing transactional memory in a data mining middleware
As the size of available datasets in various domains is growing rapidly, there is an increasing need for scaling data mining implementations. Coupled with the current trends in co...
Vignesh T. Ravi, Gagan Agrawal
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
Hardware acceleration of transactional memory on commodity systems
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...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
242views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...