As a result of improvements in process technology, more and more components are being integrated into a single System-on-Chip (SoC) design. Communication between these components ...
Sudeep Pasricha, Nikil D. Dutt, Mohamed Ben-Romdha...
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...
We explore the potential of hardware transactional memory (HTM) to improve concurrent algorithms. We illustrate a number of use cases in which HTM enables significantly simpler c...
Dave Dice, Yossi Lev, Virendra J. Marathe, Mark Mo...
Modern servers access large volumes of data while running commercial workloads. The data is typically spread among several storage devices (e.g. disks). Carefully placing the data...
This paper argues that caching, atomicity and layering are fundamental to persistent systems, and that the transactional object cache architecture, as an embodiment of these conce...