Multicore technology is making concurrent programs increasingly pervasive. Unfortunately, it is difficult to deliver reliable concurrent programs, because of the huge and non-det...
The movement to multi-core processors increases the need for simpler, more robust parallel programming models. Atomic sections have been widely recognized for their ease of use. T...
Bill McCloskey, Feng Zhou, David Gay, Eric A. Brew...
We study Reader-Writer Exclusion [1], a well-known variant of the Mutual Exclusion problem [2] where processes are divided into two classes–readers and writers–and multiple re...
Modern Web servers need to process multiple requests concurrently in order to fulfill the workload demands expected of them. Concurrency can be implemented in a Web server using ...
U. Praphamontripong, Swapna S. Gokhale, Aniruddha ...
Database engines face growing scalability challenges as core counts exponentially increase each processor generation, and the efficiency of synchronization primitives used to prot...
Ryan Johnson, Manos Athanassoulis, Radu Stoica, An...