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PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Safe open-nested transactions through ownership
Researchers in transactional memory (TM) have proposed open nesting as a methodology for increasing the concurrency of transactional programs. The idea is to ignore "low-leve...
Kunal Agrawal, I.-Ting Angelina Lee, Jim Sukha
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Idempotent work stealing
Load balancing is a technique which allows efficient parallelization of irregular workloads, and a key component of many applications and parallelizing runtimes. Work-stealing is ...
Maged M. Michael, Martin T. Vechev, Vijay A. Saras...
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
A comprehensive strategy for contention management in software transactional memory
In Software Transactional Memory (STM), contention management refers to the mechanisms used to ensure forward progress-to avoid livelock and starvation, and to promote throughput ...
Michael F. Spear, Luke Dalessandro, Virendra J. Ma...
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Efficient and scalable multiprocessor fair scheduling using distributed weighted round-robin
Fairness is an essential requirement of any operating system scheduler. Unfortunately, existing fair scheduling algorithms are either inaccurate or inefficient and non-scalable fo...
Tong Li, Dan P. Baumberger, Scott Hahn
PPOPP
2009
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Effective performance measurement and analysis of multithreaded applications
Understanding why the performance of a multithreaded program does not improve linearly with the number of cores in a sharedmemory node populated with one or more multicore process...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey