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MICRO
2008
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Verification of chip multiprocessor memory systems using a relaxed scoreboard
Verification of chip multiprocessor memory systems remains challenging. While formal methods have been used to validate protocols, simulation is still the dominant method used to ...
Ofer Shacham, Megan Wachs, Alex Solomatnikov, Amin...
SBACPAD
2008
IEEE
126views Hardware» more  SBACPAD 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
A Software Transactional Memory System for an Asymmetric Processor Architecture
Due to the advent of multi-core processors and the consequent need for better concurrent programming abstractions, new synchronization paradigms have emerged. A promising one, kno...
Felipe Goldstein, Alexandro Baldassin, Paulo Cento...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
STMBench7: a benchmark for software transactional memory
Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than explicit coarse...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Jan Vitek
MICRO
2010
IEEE
202views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
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
2008
IEEE
109views Hardware» more  MICRO 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
Dependence-aware transactional memory for increased concurrency
—Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for helping programmers take advantage of emerging multicore platforms. Though they perform well under low contention, hardware...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...