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MICRO
2008
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
MetaTM/TxLinux: Transactional Memory for an Operating System
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...
IPPS
2010
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Clustering JVMs with software transactional memory support
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 ...
Christos Kotselidis, Mikel Luján, Mohammad ...
ACMMSP
2006
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
What do high-level memory models mean for transactions?
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...
Dan Grossman, Jeremy Manson, William Pugh
PPOPP
2005
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Composable memory transactions
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...
DAGSTUHL
2007
13 years 11 months ago
A Case for Deconstructing Hardware Transactional Memory Systems
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...