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ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Maximum benefit from a minimal HTM
A minimal, bounded hardware transactional memory implementation significantly improves synchronization performance when used in an operating system kernel. We add HTM to Linux 2.4...
Owen S. Hofmann, Christopher J. Rossbach, Emmett W...
IPPS
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Power-performance efficiency of asymmetric multiprocessors for multi-threaded scientific applications
Recently, under a fixed power budget, asymmetric multiprocessors (AMP) have been proposed to improve the performance of multi-threaded applications compared to symmetric multiproc...
Ryan E. Grant, Ahmad Afsahi
PPOPP
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Analyzing lock contention in multithreaded applications
Many programs exploit shared-memory parallelism using multithreading. Threaded codes typically use locks to coordinate access to shared data. In many cases, contention for locks r...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Allan P...
PDP
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Phoenix: A Runtime Environment for High Performance Computing on Chip Multiprocessors
Abstract—Execution of applications on upcoming highperformance computing (HPC) systems introduces a variety of new challenges and amplifies many existing ones. These systems will...
Avneesh Pant, Hassan Jafri, Volodymyr V. Kindraten...
DAC
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Rapid and low-cost context-switch through embedded processor customization for real-time and control applications
In this paper, we present a methodology for low-cost and rapid context switch for multithreaded embedded processors with realtime guarantees. Context-switch, which involves saving...
Xiangrong Zhou, Peter Petrov