Most Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) implementations choose fixed version and conflict management policies at design time. While eager HTM systems store transactional state in-...
Marc Lupon, Grigorios Magklis, Antonio Gonzá...
Energy conservation without performance degradation is an important goal for battery-operated computers, such as laptops and hand-held assistants. In this paper we determine the p...
Taliver Heath, Eduardo Pinheiro, Jerry Hom, Ulrich...
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
Modern servers access large volumes of data while running commercial workloads. The data is typically spread among several storage devices (e.g. disks). Carefully placing the data...
We present a design for policy-based performance management of SMS Systems. The design takes as input the operator’s performance goals, which are expressed as policies that can b...