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ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
The potential for variable-granularity access tracking for optimistic parallelism
Support for optimistic parallelism such as thread-level speculation (TLS) and transactional memory (TM) has been proposed to ease the task of parallelizing software to exploit the...
Mihai Burcea, J. Gregory Steffan, Cristiana Amza
ISCA
1992
IEEE
111views Hardware» more  ISCA 1992»
14 years 20 days ago
Lazy Release Consistency for Software Distributed Shared Memory
Relaxed memory consistency models, such as release consistency, were introduced in order to reduce the impact of remote memory access latency in both software and hardware distrib...
Peter J. Keleher, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
CASES
2004
ACM
14 years 10 days ago
Reducing energy consumption of queries in memory-resident database systems
The tremendous growth of system memories has increased the capacities and capabilities of memory-resident embedded databases, yet current embedded databases need to be tuned in or...
Jayaprakash Pisharath, Alok N. Choudhary, Mahmut T...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
General and efficient locking without blocking
Standard concurrency control mechanisms offer a trade-off: Transactional memory approaches maximize concurrency, but suffer high overheads and cost for retrying in the case of act...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Anthony Kay, Reimer Behrends, ...
PODC
1999
ACM
14 years 27 days ago
LOTEC: A Simple DSM Consistency Protocol for Nested Object Transactions
In this paper, we describe an e cient software-only Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) consistency protocol for an unconventional but important application domain - object transactio...
Peter C. J. Graham, Yahong Sui