Existing contract checkers for data structures force programmers to choose between poor alternatives. Contracts are either built into the functions that construct the data structur...
Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising abstraction as it hides all synchronization complexities from the programmers of concurrent applications. More particularly the TM paradig...
Derin Harmanci, Vincent Gramoli, Pascal Felber, Ch...
The Cell BE is a multicore processor with eight vector accelerators (called SPEs) that implement explicit cache management through direct memory access engines. While the Cell has...
Srinivas Chellappa, Franz Franchetti, Markus P&uum...
The recent shift in the industry towards chip multiprocessor (CMP) designs has brought the need for multi-threaded applications to mainstream computing. As observed in several lim...
-- The MapReduce programming model, introduced by Google, has become popular over the past few years as a mechanism for processing large amounts of data, using sharednothing parall...
Sriram Krishnan, Chaitanya K. Baru, Christopher J....