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ISCA
2000
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
A scalable approach to thread-level speculation
While architects understandhow to build cost-effective parallel machines across a wide spectrum of machine sizes (ranging from within a single chip to large-scale servers), the re...
J. Gregory Steffan, Christopher B. Colohan, Antoni...
ISCA
2000
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Selective, accurate, and timely self-invalidation using last-touch prediction
Communication in cache-coherent distributed shared memory (DSM) often requires invalidating (or writing back) cached copies of a memory block, incurring high overheads. This paper...
An-Chow Lai, Babak Falsafi
MICRO
2010
IEEE
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13 years 2 months ago
Hardware Support for Relaxed Concurrency Control in Transactional Memory
Today's transactional memory systems implement the two-phase-locking (2PL) algorithm which aborts transactions every time a conflict happens. 2PL is a simple algorithm that pr...
Utku Aydonat, Tarek S. Abdelrahman
MICRO
2010
IEEE
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13 years 5 months ago
AtomTracker: A Comprehensive Approach to Atomic Region Inference and Violation Detection
A particularly insidious type of concurrency bug is atomicity violations. While there has been substantial work on automatic detection of atomicity violations, each existing techn...
Abdullah Muzahid, Norimasa Otsuki, Josep Torrellas