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USENIX
1993
14 years 10 months ago
The Nachos Instructional Operating System
In teaching operating systems at an undergraduate level, we believe that it is important to provide a project that is realistic enough to show how real operating systems work, yet...
Wayne A. Christopher, Steven J. Procter, Thomas E....
OSDI
2008
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Transactional Flash
Transactional flash (TxFlash) is a novel solid-state drive (SSD) that uses flash memory and exports a transactional interface (WriteAtomic) to the higher-level software. The copy-...
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Lidong ...
SC
1995
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Lazy Release Consistency for Hardware-Coherent Multiprocessors
Release consistency is a widely accepted memory model for distributed shared memory systems. Eager release consistency represents the state of the art in release consistent protoc...
Leonidas I. Kontothanassis, Michael L. Scott, Rica...
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SOSP
1997
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Towards Transparent and Efficient Software Distributed Shared Memory
Despite a large research effort, software distributed shared memory systems have not been widely used to run parallel applications across clusters of computers. The higher perform...
Daniel J. Scales, Kourosh Gharachorloo
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
The potential for variable-granularity access tracking for optimistic parallelism
Support for optimistic parallelism such as thread-level speculation (TLS) and transactional memory (TM) has been proposed to ease the task of parallelizing software to exploit the...
Mihai Burcea, J. Gregory Steffan, Cristiana Amza