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ISCA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
An integrated hardware-software approach to flexible transactional memory
There has been considerable recent interest in the support of transactional memory (TM) in both hardware and software. We present an intermediate approach, in which hardware is us...
Arrvindh Shriraman, Michael F. Spear, Hemayet Hoss...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A Scalable, Non-blocking Approach to Transactional Memory
Transactional Memory (TM) provides mechanisms that promise to simplify parallel programming by eliminating the need for locks and their associated problems (deadlock, livelock, pr...
Hassan Chafi, Jared Casper, Brian D. Carlstrom, Au...
POPL
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Semantics of transactional memory and automatic mutual exclusion
Software Transactional Memory (STM) is an attractive basis for the development of language features for concurrent programming. However, the semantics of these features can be del...
Andrew Birrell, Martín Abadi, Michael Isard...
IPPS
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Using hardware transactional memory for data race detection
Abstract—Widespread emergence of multicore processors will spur development of parallel applications, exposing programmers to degrees of hardware concurrency hitherto unavailable...
Shantanu Gupta, Florin Sultan, Srihari Cadambi, Fr...
CAV
2009
Springer
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14 years 8 months ago
Transactional Memory: Glimmer of a Theory
Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for concurrent programming. This paper is an overview of our recent theoretical work on defining a theory of TM. We first recall s...
Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka