: We analyze D/G/1 and M/G/1 queues where the service time for an arrival depends on the amount of work in the system upon arrival. The models are motivated by the bit dropping met...
Unplanned system outages have a negative impact on company revenues and image. While the last decades have seen a lot of efforts from industry and academia to avoid them, they stil...
Javier Alonso, Jordi Torres, Josep Lluis Berral, R...
Transactional memory is an alternative programming model for managing contention in accessing shared in-memory data objects. Distributed transactional memory (TM) promises to alle...
Most shared memory systems maximize performance by unpredictably resolving memory races. Unpredictable memory races can lead to nondeterminism in parallel programs, which can suff...
Derek Hower, Polina Dudnik, Mark D. Hill, David A....
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...