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IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Early experiences on accelerating Dijkstra's algorithm using transactional memory
In this paper we use Dijkstra’s algorithm as a challenging, hard to parallelize paradigm to test the efficacy of several parallelization techniques in a multicore architecture....
Nikos Anastopoulos, Konstantinos Nikas, Georgios I...
WMCSA
1999
IEEE
14 years 24 days ago
Broadcast of Consistent Data to Read-Only Transactions from Mobile Clients
In this paper, we study the inconsistency problem in data broadcast. While data items in a mobile computing system are being broadcast, update transactions may install new values ...
Kam-yiu Lam, Mei-Wau Au, Edward Chan
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
xCalls: safe I/O in memory transactions
Memory transactions, similar to database transactions, allow a programmer to focus on the logic of their program and let the system ensure that transactions are atomic and isolate...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Neelam Goyal, Micha...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Lock-free consistency control for web 2.0 applications
Online collaboration and sharing is the central theme of many webbased services that create the so-called Web 2.0 phenomena. Using the Internet as a computing platform, many Web 2...
Jiangming Yang, Haixun Wang, Ning Gu, Yiming Liu, ...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
A Scalable, Non-blocking Approach to Transactional Memory
Transactional Memory (TM) provides mechanisms that promise to simplify parallel programming by eliminating the need for locks and their associated problems (deadlock, livelock, pr...
Hassan Chafi, Jared Casper, Brian D. Carlstrom, Au...