Memory latency is an important bottleneck in system performance that cannot be adequately solved by hardware alone. Several promising software techniques have been shown to addres...
Mark Horowitz, Margaret Martonosi, Todd C. Mowry, ...
There has been considerable recent interest in the support of transactional memory (TM) in both hardware and software. We present an intermediate approach, in which hardware is us...
Arrvindh Shriraman, Michael F. Spear, Hemayet Hoss...
Hardware transactional memory has great potential to simplify the creation of correct and efficient multithreaded programs, allowing programmers to exploit more effectively the s...
Colin Blundell, Joe Devietti, E. Christopher Lewis...
—Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for helping programmers take advantage of emerging multicore platforms. Though they perform well under low contention, hardware...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...
We propose signature-accelerated transactional memory (SigTM), a hybrid TM system that reduces the overhead of software transactions. SigTM uses hardware signatures to track the r...
Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, JaeWoong Chung, Au...