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IPPS
2000
IEEE
14 years 28 days 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
SIGOPSE
1998
ACM
14 years 23 days ago
Goal-oriented programming, or composition using events, or threads considered harmful
with this, the thread abstraction was introduced. While threads are handling events, or awaiting specific events, unrelated events can be handled by other threads. Unfortunately, ...
Robbert van Renesse
ICLP
1999
Springer
14 years 24 days ago
Concurrency in Prolog Using Threads and a Shared Database
Concurrency in Logic Programming has received much attention in the past. One problem with many proposals, when applied to Prolog, is that they involve large modifications to the...
Manuel Carro, Manuel V. Hermenegildo
HPCA
1999
IEEE
14 years 25 days ago
Supporting Fine-Grained Synchronization on a Simultaneous Multithreading Processor
This paper proposes and evaluates new synchronization schemes for a simultaneous multithreaded processor. We present a scalable mechanism that permits threads to cheaply synchroni...
Dean M. Tullsen, Jack L. Lo, Susan J. Eggers, Henr...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Helper thread prefetching for loosely-coupled multiprocessor systems
This paper presents a helper thread prefetching scheme that is designed to work on loosely-coupled processors, such as in a standard chip multi-processor (CMP) system and in an in...
Changhee Jung, Daeseob Lim, Jaejin Lee, Yan Solihi...