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ISCA
2012
IEEE
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11 years 7 months ago
BlockChop: Dynamic squash elimination for hybrid processor architecture
Hybrid processors are HW/SW co-designed processors that leverage blocked-execution, the execution of regions of instructions as atomic blocks, to facilitate aggressive speculative...
Jason Mars, Naveen Kumar
HPCA
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
Bloom Filter Guided Transaction Scheduling
Contention management is an important design component to a transactional memory system. Without effective contention management to ensure forward progress, a transactional memory...
Geoffrey Blake, Ronald G. Dreslinski, Trevor N. Mu...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
202views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
12 years 11 months ago
Hardware Support for Relaxed Concurrency Control in Transactional Memory
Today's transactional memory systems implement the two-phase-locking (2PL) algorithm which aborts transactions every time a conflict happens. 2PL is a simple algorithm that pr...
Utku Aydonat, Tarek S. Abdelrahman
CACM
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
Why STM can be more than a research toy
Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which ...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Pascal Felber, Vincent Gram...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 1 months ago
Clustering JVMs with software transactional memory support
Affordable transparent clustering solutions to scale non-HPC applications on commodity clusters (such as Terracotta) are emerging for Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). Working in this ...
Christos Kotselidis, Mikel Luján, Mohammad ...
IEEEPACT
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Locks: Combining Transactions and Locks for Efficient Concurrency
Transactional memory is being advanced as an alternative to traditional lock-based synchronization for concurrent programming. Transactional memory simplifies the programming mode...
Takayuki Usui, Reimer Behrends, Jacob Evans, Yanni...
HIPC
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Integrating and optimizing transactional memory in a data mining middleware
As the size of available datasets in various domains is growing rapidly, there is an increasing need for scaling data mining implementations. Coupled with the current trends in co...
Vignesh T. Ravi, Gagan Agrawal
WDAG
2010
Springer
216views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2010»
13 years 2 months ago
A Scalable Lock-Free Universal Construction with Best Effort Transactional Hardware
The imminent arrival of best-effort transactional hardware has spurred new interest in the construction of nonblocking data structures, such as those that require atomic updates to...
Francois Carouge, Michael F. Spear
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...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Consistency in hindsight: A fully decentralized STM algorithm
Abstract--Software transactional memory (STM) algorithms often rely on centralized components to achieve atomicity, isolation and consistency. In a distributed setting, centralized...
Annette Bieniusa, Thomas Fuhrmann