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AFP
2008
Springer
236views Formal Methods» more  AFP 2008»
14 years 1 months ago
A Tutorial on Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
This practical tutorial introduces the features available in Haskell for writing parallel and concurrent programs. We first describe how to write semi-explicit parallel programs b...
Simon L. Peyton Jones, Satnam Singh
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Is the Optimism in Optimistic Concurrency Warranted?
Optimistic synchronization allows concurrent execution of critical sections while performing dynamic conflict detection and recovery. Optimistic synchronization will increase perf...
Donald E. Porter, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett Witchel
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Dealing with Disaster: Surviving Misbehaved Kernel Extensions
Today's extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advanta...
Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small...
SIGMOD
2000
ACM
133views Database» more  SIGMOD 2000»
13 years 11 months ago
Data Mining on an OLTP System (Nearly) for Free
This paper proposes a scheme for scheduling disk requests that takes advantage of the ability of high-level functions to operate directly at individual disk drives. We show that s...
Erik Riedel, Christos Faloutsos, Gregory R. Ganger...
OOPSLA
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Scalable nonblocking concurrent objects for mission critical code
The high degree of complexity and autonomy of future robotic space missions, such as Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), poses serious challenges in assuring their reliability and ef...
Damian Dechev, Bjarne Stroustrup