This paper quantifies the effect of architectural design decisions on the performance of TxLinux. TxLinux is a Linux kernel modified to use transactions in place of locking primit...
Hany E. Ramadan, Christopher J. Rossbach, Donald E...
Affordable transparent clustering solutions to scale non-HPC applications on commodity clusters (such as Terracotta) are emerging for Java Virtual Machines (JVMs). Working in this ...
Many people have proposed adding transactions, or atomic blocks, to type-safe high-level programming languages. However, researchers have not considered the semantics of transacti...
Writing concurrent programs is notoriously difficult, and is of increasing practical importance. A particular source of concern is n correctly-implemented concurrency abstraction...
Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon L. Peyton Jones, M...
Major hardware and software vendors are curious about transactional memory (TM), but are understandably cautious about committing to hardware changes. Our thesis is that deconstru...
Mark D. Hill, Derek Hower, Kevin E. Moore, Michael...