Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than explicit coarse...
TxLinux is a variant of Linux that is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the sc...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Donald E...
This work assesses how crashes and recoveries affect the performance of a replicated dynamic content web application. RobustStore is the result of retrofitting TPC-W’s on-line ...
Luiz Eduardo Buzato, Gustavo M. D. Vieira, Willy Z...
Stochastic performance models provide a powerful way of capturing and analysing the behaviour of complex concurrent systems. Traditionally, performance measures for these models ar...
Multimedia applications today constitute a significant fraction of the workload running on portable devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and MP3 players. However, the processors i...