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2009
IEEE
15 years 1 months ago
Operating Systems Should Provide Transactions
Operating systems can efficiently provide system transactions to user applications, in which user-level processes can execute a series of system calls atomically and in isolation ...
Donald E. Porter, Emmett Witchel
VLSID
2009
IEEE
177views VLSI» more  VLSID 2009»
15 years 10 months ago
Accelerating System-Level Design Tasks Using Commodity Graphics Hardware: A Case Study
Many system-level design tasks (e.g. timing analysis, hardware/software partitioning and design space exploration) involve computational kernels that are intractable (usually NP-ha...
Unmesh D. Bordoloi, Samarjit Chakraborty
ANCS
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The case for hardware transactional memory in software packet processing
Software packet processing is becoming more important to enable differentiated and rapidly-evolving network services. With increasing numbers of programmable processor and acceler...
Martin Labrecque, J. Gregory Steffan
MICRO
2010
IEEE
242views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
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ISCA
2007
IEEE
149views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
15 years 3 months ago
An effective hybrid transactional memory system with strong isolation guarantees
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...