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IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Monotonic Counters: A New Mechanism for Thread Synchronization
Only a handful of fundamental mechanisms for synchronizing the access of concurrent threads to shared memory are widely implemented and used. These include locks, condition variab...
John Thornley, K. Mani Chandy
ICDCS
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Active Correlation Tracking
We describe methods of identifying and exploiting sharing patterns in multi-threaded DSM applications. Active correlation tracking is used to determine the affinity, or amount of ...
Kritchalach Thitikamol, Peter J. Keleher
ICPP
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Producer-Push - A Protocol Enhancement to Page-Based Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems
This paper describes a technique called producer-push that enhances the performance of a page-based software distributed shared memory system. Shared data, in software DSM systems...
Sven Karlsson, Mats Brorsson
ICPP
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Performance of Load-Store Sequences for Transaction Processing Workloads on Multiprocessors
On-line transaction processing exhibits poor memory behavior in high-end multiprocessor servers because of complex sharing patterns and substantial interaction between the databas...
Jim Nilsson, Fredrik Dahlgren
ICPP
1999
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Optimization of Instruction Fetch for Decision Support Workloads
Instruction fetch bandwidth is feared to be a major limiting factor to the performance of future wide-issue aggressive superscalars. In this paper, we focus on Database applicatio...
Alex Ramírez, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Carl...