We argue that traditional synchronization objects, such as locks, conditions, and atomic/volatile variables, should be defined in terms of transactions, rather than the other way ...
Luke Dalessandro, Michael L. Scott, Michael F. Spe...
The problem of locally transforming or translating programs without altering their semantics is central to the construction of correct compilers. For concurrent shared-memory progr...
Sebastian Burckhardt, Madanlal Musuvathi, Vasu Sin...
Verification of chip multiprocessor memory systems remains challenging. While formal methods have been used to validate protocols, simulation is still the dominant method used to ...
Ofer Shacham, Megan Wachs, Alex Solomatnikov, Amin...
The memory consistency model is a fundamental system property characterizing a multiprocessor. The relative merits of strict versus relaxed memory models have been widely debated ...
Alexander Jaffe, Thomas Moscibroda, Laura Effinger...
Abstract--Ensuring the correctness of complex implementations of software transactional memory (STM) is a daunting task. Attempts have been made to formally verify STMs, but these ...