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WDAG
2010
Springer
177views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 3 months ago
Transactions as the Foundation of a Memory Consistency Model
We argue that traditional synchronization objects, such as locks, conditions, and atomic/volatile variables, should be defined in terms of transactions, rather than the other way ...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael L. Scott, Michael F. Spe...
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Modeling transactional memory workload performance
Transactional memory promises to make parallel programming easier than with fine-grained locking, while performing just as well. This performance claim is not always borne out bec...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
ICPP
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Implementing and Exploiting Inevitability in Software Transactional Memory
—Transactional Memory (TM) takes responsibility for concurrent, atomic execution of labeled regions of code, freeing the programmer from the need to manage locks. Typical impleme...
Michael F. Spear, Michael Silverman, Luke Dalessan...
CORR
2010
Springer
140views Education» more  CORR 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Window-Based Greedy Contention Management for Transactional Memory
r of Abstraction (invited lecture) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Barbara Liskov Fast Asynchronous Consensus with Optimal Resilience. . . . . . . . . . . ....
Gokarna Sharma, Brett Estrade, Costas Busch