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LCPC
1995
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
V-cal: A Calculus for the Compilation of Data Parallel Languages
V-cal is a calculus designed to support the compilation of data parallel languages that allows to describe program transformations and optimizations as semantics preserving rewrite...
P. F. G. Dechering, J. A. Trescher, J. P. M. de Vr...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
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13 years 4 months ago
Architectural Support for Fair Reader-Writer Locking
Abstract--Many shared-memory parallel systems use lockbased synchronization mechanisms to provide mutual exclusion or reader-writer access to memory locations. Software locks are i...
Enrique Vallejo, Ramón Beivide, Adriá...
IFIP
2004
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
The Driving Philosophers
We introduce a new synchronization problem in mobile ad-hoc systems: the Driving Philosophers. In this problem, an unbounded number of driving philosophers (processes) access a rou...
Sébastien Baehni, Roberto Baldoni, Rachid G...
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Building scalable software systems in the multicore era
Software systems must face two challenges today: growing complexity and increasing parallelism in the underlying computational models. The problem of increased complexity is often...
Hridesh Rajan
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The theory of deadlock avoidance via discrete control
Deadlock in multithreaded programs is an increasingly important problem as ubiquitous multicore architectures force parallelization upon an ever wider range of software. This pape...
Manjunath Kudlur, Scott A. Mahlke, Stéphane...