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PLDI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Parallelizing sequential applications on commodity hardware using a low-cost software transactional memory
Multicore designs have emerged as the mainstream design paradigm for the microprocessor industry. Unfortunately, providing multiple cores does not directly translate into performa...
Mojtaba Mehrara, Jeff Hao, Po-Chun Hsu, Scott A. M...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
153views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
Scalable Speculative Parallelization on Commodity Clusters
While clusters of commodity servers and switches are the most popular form of large-scale parallel computers, many programs are not easily parallelized for execution upon them. In...
Hanjun Kim, Arun Raman, Feng Liu, Jae W. Lee, Davi...
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...
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months 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...
PDP
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Comparing Commodity SMP System Software with a Matrix Multiplication Benchmark
Commodity symmetric multiprocessors (SMPs), though originally intended for transaction processing, because of their availability, are now used for numerical analysis applications ...
Georgios Tsilikas, Martin Fleury