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JMLC
2000
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
Composable Message Semantics in Oberon
Most object-oriented languages offer a limited number of invocation semantics. At best, they define a default mode of synchronous invocation, plus some keywords to express addition...
Markus Hof
IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Monotonic Counters: A New Mechanism for Thread Synchronization
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...
John Thornley, K. Mani Chandy
PAAPP
2010
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14 years 8 months ago
Accurately measuring overhead, communication time and progression of blocking and nonblocking collective operations at massive s
Accurate, reproducible and comparable measurement of the overheads, communication times and progression behavior of blocking and nonblocking collective operations is a complicated...
Torsten Hoefler, Timo Schneider, Andrew Lumsdaine
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. ...
CLUSTER
2008
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Benchmarking the effects of operating system interference on extreme-scale parallel machines
We investigate operating system noise, which we identify as one of the main reasons for a lack of synchronicity in parallel applications. Using a microbenchmark, we measure the no...
Peter H. Beckman, Kamil Iskra, Kazutomo Yoshii, Su...