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CACM
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
TxLinux and MetaTM: transactional memory and the operating system
TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux, which is a ...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Hany E. Ramadan, Owen S. ...
PVM
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Parallelizing Dense Linear Algebra Operations with Task Queues in
llc is a language based on C where parallelism is expressed using compiler directives. The llc compiler produces MPI code which can be ported to both shared and distributed memory ...
Antonio J. Dorta, José M. Badía, Enr...
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IPPS
2010
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Operating system resource management
From the point of view of an operating system, a computer is managed and optimized in terms of the application programming model and the management of system resources. For the TF...
Burton Smith
CAV
2009
Springer
177views Hardware» more  CAV 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Software Transactional Memory on Relaxed Memory Models
Abstract. Pseudo-code descriptions of STMs assume sequentially consistent program execution and atomicity of high-level STM operations like read, write, and commit. These assumptio...
Rachid Guerraoui, Thomas A. Henzinger, Vasu Singh
ISCA
2007
IEEE
142views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
MetaTM//TxLinux: transactional memory for an operating system
This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking prim...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...