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ASPLOS
1998
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Performance of Database Workloads on Shared-Memory Systems with Out-of-Order Processors
Database applications such as online transaction processing (OLTP) and decision support systems (DSS) constitute the largest and fastest-growing segment of the market for multipro...
Parthasarathy Ranganathan, Kourosh Gharachorloo, S...
VLDB
1993
ACM
98views Database» more  VLDB 1993»
14 years 1 months ago
Memory-Adaptive External Sorting
- In real-time and goal-orienteddatabasesystems, the amountof memory assignedto queriesthat sort or join large relations may fluctuate due to contention from other higherpriority t...
HweeHwa Pang, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
A study of memory management for web-based applications on multicore processors
More and more server workloads are becoming Web-based. In these Web-based workloads, most of the memory objects are used only during one transaction. We study the effect of the me...
Hiroshi Inoue, Hideaki Komatsu, Toshio Nakatani
PPOPP
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Is transactional programming actually easier?
Chip multi-processors (CMPs) have become ubiquitous, while tools that ease concurrent programming have not. The promise of increased performance for all applications through ever ...
Christopher J. Rossbach, Owen S. Hofmann, Emmett W...
WDAG
2005
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Polymorphic Contention Management
Abstract. In software transactional memory (STM) systems, a contention manager resolves conflicts among transactions accessing the same memory locations. Whereas atomicity and ser...
Rachid Guerraoui, Maurice Herlihy, Bastian Pochon