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ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Communication optimizations for global multi-threaded instruction scheduling
The recent shift in the industry towards chip multiprocessor (CMP) designs has brought the need for multi-threaded applications to mainstream computing. As observed in several lim...
Guilherme Ottoni, David I. August
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Streamware: programming general-purpose multicore processors using streams
Recently, the number of cores on general-purpose processors has been increasing rapidly. Using conventional programming models, it is challenging to effectively exploit these core...
Jayanth Gummaraju, Joel Coburn, Yoshio Turner, Men...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Learning from mistakes: a comprehensive study on real world concurrency bug characteristics
The reality of multi-core hardware has made concurrent programs pervasive. Unfortunately, writing correct concurrent programs is difficult. Addressing this challenge requires adva...
Shan Lu, Soyeon Park, Eunsoo Seo, Yuanyuan Zhou
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
SoftSig: software-exposed hardware signatures for code analysis and optimization
Many code analysis techniques for optimization, debugging, or parallelization need to perform runtime disambiguation of sets of addresses. Such operations can be supported efficie...
James Tuck, Wonsun Ahn, Luis Ceze, Josep Torrellas
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Understanding and visualizing full systems with data flow tomography
It is not uncommon for modern systems to be composed of a variety of interacting services, running across multiple machines in such a way that most developers do not really unders...
Shashidhar Mysore, Bita Mazloom, Banit Agrawal, Ti...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Archipelago: trading address space for reliability and security
Memory errors are a notorious source of security vulnerabilities that can lead to service interruptions, information leakage and unauthorized access. Because such errors are also ...
Vitaliy B. Lvin, Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger, Ben...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
General and efficient locking without blocking
Standard concurrency control mechanisms offer a trade-off: Transactional memory approaches maximize concurrency, but suffer high overheads and cost for retrying in the case of act...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Anthony Kay, Reimer Behrends, ...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Accelerating two-dimensional page walks for virtualized systems
Nested paging is a hardware solution for alleviating the software memory management overhead imposed by system virtualization. Nested paging complements existing page walk hardwar...
Ravi Bhargava, Ben Serebrin, Francesco Spadini, Sr...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Xoc, an extension-oriented compiler for systems programming
Today's system programmers go to great lengths to extend the languages in which they program. For instance, system-specific compilers find errors in Linux and other systems, ...
Russ Cox, Tom Bergan, Austin T. Clements, M. Frans...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Optimistic parallelism benefits from data partitioning
Recent studies of irregular applications such as finite-element mesh generators and data-clustering codes have shown that these applications have a generalized data parallelism ar...
Milind Kulkarni, Keshav Pingali, Ganesh Ramanaraya...