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PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Is transactional programming actually easier?
Chip multi-processors (CMPs) have become ubiquitous, while tools that ease concurrent programming have not. The promise of increased performance for all applications through ever ...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett W...
WDAG
2005
Springer
104views Algorithms» more  WDAG 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Polymorphic Contention Management
Abstract. In software transactional memory (STM) systems, a contention manager resolves conflicts among transactions accessing the same memory locations. Whereas atomicity and ser...
Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Bastian Pochon
ISCA
1993
IEEE
157views Hardware» more  ISCA 1993»
13 years 11 months ago
The Performance of Cache-Coherent Ring-based Multiprocessors
Advances in circuit and integration technology are continuously boosting the speed of microprocessors. One of the main challenges presented by such developments is the effective u...
Luiz André Barroso, Michel Dubois
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
The OpenTM Transactional Application Programming Interface
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by supporting atomic and isolated execution of user-identified tasks. To date, TM programming has required the use of l...
Woongki Baek, Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, Chri...
VLDB
2004
ACM
126views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 1 months ago
STEPS towards Cache-resident Transaction Processing
Online transaction processing (OLTP) is a multibillion dollar industry with high-end database servers employing state-of-the-art processors to maximize performance. Unfortunately,...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Anastassia Ailamaki