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MICRO
2008
IEEE
162views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
14 years 9 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 primit...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
ICPP
1995
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Data-Parallel Primitives for Spatial Operations
Data-parallel primitives for performing operations on the PM1 quadtree and the bucket PMR quadtree are presented using the scan model. Algorithms are described for building these ...
Erik G. Hoel, Hanan Samet
ICA3PP
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
A Practical Comparison of Cluster Operating Systems Implementing Sequential and Transactional Consistency
Shared Memory is an interesting communication paradigm for SMP machines and clusters. Weak consistency models have been proposed to improve efficiency of shared memory applications...
Stefan Frenz, Renaud Lottiaux, Michael Schött...
SENSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Enix: a lightweight dynamic operating system for tightly constrained wireless sensor platforms
Enix is a lightweight dynamic operating system for tightly constrained platforms for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Enix provides a cooperative threading model, which is applicab...
Yu-Ting Chen, Ting-Chou Chien, Pai H. Chou
PLDI
2012
ACM
13 years 1 days ago
Dynamic synthesis for relaxed memory models
Modern architectures implement relaxed memory models which may reorder memory operations or execute them non-atomically. Special instructions called memory fences are provided, al...
Feng Liu, Nayden Nedev, Nedyalko Prisadnikov, Mart...