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MICRO
2010
IEEE
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13 years 5 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Parallelizing sequential applications on commodity hardware using a low-cost software transactional memory
Multicore designs have emerged as the mainstream design paradigm for the microprocessor industry. Unfortunately, providing multiple cores does not directly translate into performa...
Mojtaba Mehrara, Jeff Hao, Po-Chun Hsu, Scott A. M...
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
NZTM: nonblocking zero-indirection transactional memory
This workshop paper reports work in progress on NZTM, a nonblocking, zero-indirection object-based hybrid transactional memory system. NZTM can execute transactions using best-eff...
Fuad Tabba, Mark Moir, James R. Goodman, Andrew W....
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 9 months ago
A Case for Deconstructing Hardware Transactional Memory Systems
Major hardware and software vendors are curious about transactional memory (TM), but are understandably cautious about committing to hardware changes. Our thesis is that deconstru...
Mark D. Hill, Derek Hower, Kevin E. Moore, Michael...
EUROSYS
2007
ACM
14 years 5 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