While clusters of commodity servers and switches are the most popular form of large-scale parallel computers, many programs are not easily parallelized for execution upon them. In...
Hanjun Kim, Arun Raman, Feng Liu, Jae W. Lee, Davi...
—Bulk memory copying and initialization is one of the most ubiquitous operations performed in current computer systems by both user applications and Operating Systems. While many...
Xiaowei Jiang, Yan Solihin, Li Zhao, Ravishankar I...
Memory bugs are a broad class of bugs that is becoming increasingly common with increasing software complexity, and many of these bugs are also security vulnerabilities. Unfortuna...
Guru Venkataramani, Brandyn Roemer, Yan Solihin, M...
Both commercial and scientific workloads benefit from concurrency and exhibit data sharing across threads/processes. The resulting sharing patterns are often fine-grain, with t...
Hemayet Hossain, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Michael C. Hua...
Transactional Memory (TM) is considered as one of the most promising paradigms for developing concurrent applications. TM has been shown to scale well on multiple cores when the d...
Walther Maldonado, Patrick Marlier, Pascal Felber,...