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PODC
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Preventing versus curing: avoiding conflicts in transactional memories
Transactional memories are typically speculative and rely on contention managers to cure conflicts. This paper explores a complementary approach that prevents conflicts by schedul...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Rachid Guerraoui, Anmol V. ...
CACM
2011
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13 years 3 months ago
Why STM can be more than a research toy
Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which ...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Pascal Felber, Vincent Gram...
RECOSOC
2007
116views Hardware» more  RECOSOC 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
IBC-EI: An Instruction Based Compression method with Encryption and Integrity Checking
Code Compression has been shown to be efficient in minimizing the memory requirements for embedded systems as well as in power consumption reduction and performance improvement. I...
Eduardo Wanderley Netto, Reouven Elbaz, Lionel Tor...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
A Scalable, Non-blocking Approach to Transactional Memory
Transactional Memory (TM) provides mechanisms that promise to simplify parallel programming by eliminating the need for locks and their associated problems (deadlock, livelock, pr...
Hassan Chafi, Jared Casper, Brian D. Carlstrom, Au...
SYSTOR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Transactifying Apache's cache module
Apache is a large-scale industrial multi-process and multithreaded application, which uses lock-based synchronization. We report on our experience in modifying Apache’s cache mo...
Haggai Eran, Ohad Lutzky, Zvika Guz, Idit Keidar