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2009
IEEE
13 years 10 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»
14 years 7 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
13 years 4 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»
13 years 4 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...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
149views Hardware» more  ISCA 2007»
14 years 20 days 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...