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2009
13 years 3 months ago
Enabling Transactional File Access via Lightweight Kernel Extensions
Transactions offer a powerful data-access method used in many databases today trough a specialized query API. User applications, however, use a different fileaccess API (POSIX) wh...
Richard P. Spillane, Sachin Gaikwad, Manjunath Chi...
SPAA
2010
ACM
13 years 10 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...
MICRO
2009
IEEE
132views Hardware» more  MICRO 2009»
13 years 12 months ago
EazyHTM: eager-lazy hardware transactional memory
Transactional Memory aims to provide a programming model that makes parallel programming easier. Hardware implementations of transactional memory (HTM) suffer from fewer overhead...
Sasa Tomic, Cristian Perfumo, Chinmay Eishan Kulka...
ACMMSP
2006
ACM
250views Hardware» more  ACMMSP 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
What do high-level memory models mean for transactions?
Many people have proposed adding transactions, or atomic blocks, to type-safe high-level programming languages. However, researchers have not considered the semantics of transacti...
Dan Grossman, Jeremy Manson, William Pugh
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
14 years 1 days ago
QuakeTM: parallelizing a complex sequential application using transactional memory
“Is transactional memory useful?” is the question that cannot be answered until we provide substantial applications that can evaluate its capabilities. While existing TM appli...
Vladimir Gajinov, Ferad Zyulkyarov, Osman S. Unsal...