PPOPP
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
The actor model has already proven itself as an interesting concurrency model that avoids issues such as deadlocks and race conditions by construction, and thus facilitates concur...
PPOPP
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
Analysis of massive graphs has emerged as an important area for massively parallel computation. In this paper, it is shown how the Fresh Breeze trees-of-chunks memory model may be...
PPOPP
2012
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
2012
ACM
We introduce the first binary search tree algorithm designed for speculative executions. Prior to this work, tree structures were mainly designed for their pessimistic (non-specu...
ICDCN
2012
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
2012
Springer
Cloud computing is a paradigm that has the potential to transform and revolutionalize the next generation IT industry by making software available to end-users as a service. A clou...
ICDCN
2012
Springer
12 years 7 months ago
2012
Springer
Synchronization in distributed systems is expensive because, in general, threads must stall to obtain a lock or to operate on volatile data. Transactional memory, on the other hand...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
Since the onset of pipelined processors, balancing the delay of the microarchitectural pipeline stages such that each microarchitectural pipeline stage has an equal delay has been...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
Recent research on memory disaggregation introduces a new architectural building block—the memory blade—as a cost-effective approach for memory capacity expansion and sharing ...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
The least recently used (LRU) replacement policy performs poorly in the last-level cache (LLC) because temporal locality of memory accesses is filtered by first and second level...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
Data races are a major contributor to parallel software unreliability. A type of race that is both common and typically harmful is the Asymmetric data race. It occurs when at leas...
HPCA
2012
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
2012
IEEE
Large-scale CMPs with hundreds of cores require a directory-based protocol to maintain cache coherence. However, previously proposed coherence directories are hard to scale beyond...