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TACAS
2010
Springer
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14 years 7 months ago
Preemption Sealing for Efficient Concurrency Testing
The choice of where a thread scheduling algorithm preempts one thread in order to execute another is essential to reveal concurrency errors such as atomicity violations, livelocks,...
Thomas Ball, Sebastian Burckhardt, Katherine E. Co...
LCPC
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Software Thread Level Speculation for the Java Language and Virtual Machine Environment
Thread level speculation (TLS) has shown great promise as a strategy for fine to medium grain automatic parallelisation, and in a hardware context techniques to ensure correct TLS...
Christopher J. F. Pickett, Clark Verbrugge
IPPS
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Thread Migration and Load Balancing in Non-Dedicated Environments
Networks of workstations are fast becoming the standard environment for parallel applications. However, the use of “found” resources as a platform for tightly-coupled runtime ...
Kritchalach Thitikamol, Peter J. Keleher
HPCA
2002
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
CableS: Thread Control and Memory Management Extensions for Shared Virtual Memory Clusters
Clusters of high-end workstations and PCs are currently used in many application domains to perform large-scale computations or as scalable servers for I/O bound tasks. Although c...
Peter Jamieson, Angelos Bilas
CONCURRENCY
2000
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14 years 9 months ago
OpenMP versus threading in C/C++
When comparing OpenMP to other parallel programming models, it is easier to choose between OpenMP and MPI than between OpenMP and POSIX Threads (Pthreads). With languages like C a...
Bob Kuhn, Paul Petersen, Eamonn O'Toole