Telephone Switches are characteristically long-lived, evolving systems. We describe how a legacy two-tier system for telephone switch management was reengineered as a three-tier w...
Abstract. Most parallel systems on which MPI is used are now hierarchical: some processors are much closer to others in terms of interconnect performance. One of the most common su...
Hao Zhu, David Goodell, William Gropp, Rajeev Thak...
Current hardware transactional memory systems seek to simplify parallel programming, but assume that large transactions are rare, so it is acceptable to penalize their performance...
Jayaram Bobba, Neelam Goyal, Mark D. Hill, Michael...
Abstract. Transactional memory (TM) promises to simplify construction of parallel applications by allowing programmers to reason about interactions between concurrently executing c...
Haris Volos, Adam Welc, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Ta...
Abstract. We propose a new formalisation of stability for Rely-Guarantee, in which an assertion's stability is encoded into its syntactic form. This allows two advances in mod...