Synchronization primitives for large shared-memory multiprocessors need to minimize latency and contention. Software queue-based locks address these goals, but suffer if a process...
Robert W. Wisniewski, Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, ...
Many new database applications require very large volumes of data. Mariposa is a data base system under construction at Berkeley responding to this need. Mariposa objects can be s...
Michael Stonebraker, Robert Devine, Marcel Kornack...
– In the past few years considerable demand for user oriented multimedia information systems has developed. These systems must provide a rich set of functionality so that new, co...
Abstract. We present a set of primitive program schemes, which together with just two basic combining forms provide a suprisingly expressive parallel programming language. The prim...
Abstract. As the disparity between processor and memory speed continues to widen, the exploitation of locality of reference in shared-memory multiprocessors becomes an increasingly...