PPOPP
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Writing concurrent programs is notoriously difficult, and is of increasing practical importance. A particular source of concern is n correctly-implemented concurrency abstraction...
ISLPED
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
The emphasis in microprocessor design has shifted from high performance, to a combination of high performance and low power. Until recently, this trend was mostly true for uniproc...
PPOPP
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Applications need to become more concurrent to take advantage of the increased computational power provided by chip level multiprocessing. Programmers have traditionally managed t...
PPOPP
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
We investigate a transactional memory runtime system providing scaling and strong consistency for generic C++ and SQL applications on commodity clusters. We introduce a novel page...
PLDI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Atomic blocks allow programmers to delimit sections of code as ‘atomic’, leaving the language’s implementation to enforce atomicity. Existing work has shown how to implement...
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Nested transactional memory (TM) facilitates software composition by letting one module invoke another without either knowing whether the other uses transactions. Closed nested tr...
ASPLOS
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
For transactional memory (TM) to achieve widespread acceptance, transactions should not be limited to the physical resources of any specific hardware implementation. TM systems s...
ISCA
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by allowing for parallel execution of atomic tasks. Thus far, TM systems have focused on implementing transactional stat...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Transactional memory is an attractive design concept for scalable multiprocessors because it offers efficient lock-free synchronization and greatly simplifies parallel software....
SMALLTALK
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
Concurrency control in Smalltalk is based on locks and is therefore notoriously difficult to use. Even though some implementations provide high-level constructs, these add complexi...