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OSDI
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Gadara: Dynamic Deadlock Avoidance for Multithreaded Programs
Deadlock is an increasingly pressing concern as the multicore revolution forces parallel programming upon the average programmer. Existing approaches to deadlock impose onerous bu...
Manjunath Kudlur, Scott A. Mahlke, Stéphane...
IWMM
2009
Springer
152views Hardware» more  IWMM 2009»
14 years 5 months ago
A new approach to parallelising tracing algorithms
Tracing algorithms visit reachable nodes in a graph and are central to activities such as garbage collection, marshalling etc. Traditional sequential algorithms use a worklist, re...
Cosmin E. Oancea, Alan Mycroft, Stephen M. Watt
CACM
2010
179views more  CACM 2010»
13 years 11 months ago
x86-TSO: a rigorous and usable programmer's model for x86 multiprocessors
Exploiting the multiprocessors that have recently become ubiquitous requires high-performance and reliable concurrent systems code, for concurrent data structures, operating syste...
Peter Sewell, Susmit Sarkar, Scott Owens, Francesc...
DC
2010
13 years 11 months ago
Model checking transactional memories
Model checking software transactional memories (STMs) is difficult because of the unbounded number, length, and delay of concurrent transactions and the unbounded size of the memo...
Rachid Guerraoui, Thomas A. Henzinger, Vasu Singh
LOPSTR
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Using Rewrite Strategies for Testing BUpL Agents
Abstract. In this paper we focus on the problem of testing agent programs written in BUpL, an executable, high-level modelling agent language. Our approach consists of two main ste...
Lacramioara Astefanoaei, Frank S. de Boer, M. Birn...