Standard concurrency control mechanisms offer a trade-off: Transactional memory approaches maximize concurrency, but suffer high overheads and cost for retrying in the case of act...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Anthony Kay, Reimer Behrends, ...
Recently, the number of cores on general-purpose processors has been increasing rapidly. Using conventional programming models, it is challenging to effectively exploit these core...
Jayanth Gummaraju, Joel Coburn, Yoshio Turner, Men...
Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on application execution through hardware counters. In this paper, we explore the utilization of these sta...
Kai Shen, Ming Zhong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Chuanpeng...
The constant race for faster and more powerful CPUs is drawing to a close. No longer is it feasible to significantly increase the speed of the CPU without paying a crushing penalt...
Yaron Weinsberg, Danny Dolev, Tal Anker, Muli Ben-...
In this paper, we investigate multi-agent learning (MAL) in a multi-agent resource selection problem (MARS) in which a large group of agents are competing for common resources. Si...