With the right techniques, multicore architectures may be able to continue the exponential performance trend that elevated the performance of applications of all types for decades...
Arun Raman, Hanjun Kim, Thomas R. Mason, Thomas B....
Concurrency control in Smalltalk is based on locks and is therefore notoriously difficult to use. Even though some implementations provide high-level constructs, these add complexi...
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a runtime instrumentation technique commonly used to support profiling, optimization, secure execution, and bug detection tools for application...
JaeWoong Chung, Michael Dalton, Hari Kannan, Chris...
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...
Real-time databases are needed in security-critical applications, e.g., e-commerce, agile manufacturing, and military applications. In these applications, transactions and data it...