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ICDCN
2012
Springer
12 years 13 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
POPL
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Speculative N-Way barriers
Speculative execution is an important technique that has historically been used to extract concurrency from sequential programs. While techniques to support speculation work well ...
Lukasz Ziarek, Suresh Jagannathan, Matthew Fluet, ...
IPPS
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A Mechanism for Speculative Memory Accesses Following Synchronizing Operations
In order to reduce the overhead of synchronizing operations of shared memory multiprocessors, this paper proposes a mechanism, named specMEM, to execute memory accesses following ...
Takayuki Sato, Kazuhiko Ohno, Hiroshi Nakashima
LCPC
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Speculative Optimizations for Parallel Programs on Multicores
The advent of multicores presents a promising opportunity for exploiting fine grained parallelism present in programs. Programs parallelized in the above fashion, typically involv...
Vijay Nagarajan, Rajiv Gupta
HPCA
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Multithreaded Value Prediction
This paper introduces a novel technique which leverages value prediction and multithreading on a simultaneous multithreading processor to achieve higher performance in a single th...
Nathan Tuck, Dean M. Tullsen