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
This position paper argues that policies for physical memory management and for memory power mode control should be relocated to the system software of a programmable memory manag...
This paper describes Shasta, a system that supports a shared address space in software on clusters of computers with physically distributed memory. A unique aspect of Shasta compa...
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo, Chandramoh...
With the advent of multi-processor systems on a chip, the interest for message passing libraries has revived. Message passing helps in mastering the design complexity of parallel ...
Current shared memory multicore and multiprocessor systems are nondeterministic. Each time these systems execute a multithreaded application, even if supplied with the same input,...
Joseph Devietti, Brandon Lucia, Luis Ceze, Mark Os...