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MICRO
2007
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
Global Multi-Threaded Instruction Scheduling
Recently, the microprocessor industry has moved toward chip multiprocessor (CMP) designs as a means of utilizing the increasing transistor counts in the face of physical and micro...
Guilherme Ottoni, David I. August
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Parallelizing sequential applications on commodity hardware using a low-cost software transactional memory
Multicore designs have emerged as the mainstream design paradigm for the microprocessor industry. Unfortunately, providing multiple cores does not directly translate into performa...
Mojtaba Mehrara, Jeff Hao, Po-Chun Hsu, Scott A. M...
IPPS
1994
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Building Multithreaded Architectures with Off-the-Shelf Microprocessors
Present-day parallel computers often face the problems of large software Overheadsfor process switching and interprocessor communication. These problems are addressed by the Multi...
Herbert H. J. Hum, Kevin B. Theobald, Guang R. Gao
ICPP
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Implementing and Exploiting Inevitability in Software Transactional Memory
—Transactional Memory (TM) takes responsibility for concurrent, atomic execution of labeled regions of code, freeing the programmer from the need to manage locks. Typical impleme...
Michael F. Spear, Michael Silverman, Luke Dalessan...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
242views Hardware» more  MICRO 2010»
13 years 8 months ago
ASF: AMD64 Extension for Lock-Free Data Structures and Transactional Memory
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...