The map-reduce model requires users to express their problem in terms of a map function that processes single records in a stream, and a reduce function that merges all mapped out...
Jackson H. C. Yeung, C. C. Tsang, Kuen Hung Tsoi, ...
Both commercial and scientific workloads benefit from concurrency and exhibit data sharing across threads/processes. The resulting sharing patterns are often fine-grain, with t...
Hemayet Hossain, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Michael C. Hua...
Writing shared-memory parallel programs is error-prone. Among the concurrency errors that programmers often face are atomicity violations, which are especially challenging. They h...
Brandon Lucia, Joseph Devietti, Karin Strauss, Lui...
Hardware signatures have been recently proposed as an efficient mechanism to detect conflicts amongst concurrently running transactions in transactional memory systems (e.g., Bulk...
We propose signature-accelerated transactional memory (SigTM), a hybrid TM system that reduces the overhead of software transactions. SigTM uses hardware signatures to track the r...
Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, JaeWoong Chung, Au...