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DBPL
1993
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Database Programming in Transaction Logic
This paper presents database applications of the recently proposed Transaction Logic—an extension of classical predicate logic that accounts in a clean and declarative fashion f...
Anthony J. Bonner, Michael Kifer, Mariano P. Conse...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The semantics of x86-CC multiprocessor machine code
Multiprocessors are now dominant, but real multiprocessors do not provide the sequentially consistent memory that is assumed by most work on semantics and verification. Instead, t...
Susmit Sarkar, Peter Sewell, Francesco Zappa Narde...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Feedback-directed barrier optimization in a strongly isolated STM
Speed improvements in today's processors have largely been delivered in the form of multiple cores, increasing the importance of ions that ease parallel programming. Software...
Nathan Grasso Bronson, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle O...
MICRO
2008
IEEE
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13 years 7 months ago
Verification of chip multiprocessor memory systems using a relaxed scoreboard
Verification of chip multiprocessor memory systems remains challenging. While formal methods have been used to validate protocols, simulation is still the dominant method used to ...
Ofer Shacham, Megan Wachs, Alex Solomatnikov, Amin...
DAIS
2006
13 years 8 months ago
Using Speculative Push for Unnecessary Checkpoint Creation Avoidance
Abstract. This paper discusses a way of incorporating speculation techniques into Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) systems with checkpointing mechanism without creating unnecessary ...
Arkadiusz Danilecki, Michal Szychowiak