Transactional Memory (TM) systems must track the read and write sets—items read and written during a transaction—to detect conflicts among concurrent transactions. Several TM...
Daniel Sanchez, Luke Yen, Mark D. Hill, Karthikeya...
The MPI standard provides tool builders with an efficient profiling interface, PMPI. Although many tools have successfully used this interface, it has three major drawbacks: a n...
As the industry moves toward larger-scale chip multiprocessors, the need to parallelize applications grows. High inter-thread communication delays, exacerbated by over-stressed hi...
Ram Rangan, Neil Vachharajani, Adam Stoler, Guilhe...
Hyperthreaded (HT) and simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are now available in commodity workstations and servers. This technology is designed to increase throughput by e...
Over the past few years there has been increased interest in building custom computing machines (CCMs) as a way of achieving very high performance on specific problems. The advent...
David Abramson, Paul Logothetis, Adam Postula, Mar...