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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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...