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PPOPP
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days 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
PPOPP
2009
ACM
15 years 2 days 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
15 years 2 days 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
15 years 2 days 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...
COORDINATION
2009
Springer
15 years 2 days ago
Mobility Models and Behavioural Equivalence for Wireless Networks
In protocol development for wireless systems, the choice of appropriate mobility models describing the movement patterns of devices has long been recognised as a crucial factor for...
Jens Chr. Godskesen, Sebastian Nanz
COORDINATION
2009
Springer
15 years 2 days ago
Multicore Scheduling for Lightweight Communicating Processes
Process-oriented programming is a design methodology in which software applications are constructed from communicating concurrent processes. A process-oriented design is typically ...
Carl G. Ritson, Adam T. Sampson, Fred R. M. Barnes
COORDINATION
2009
Springer
15 years 2 days ago
High-Performance Transactional Event Processing
This paper presents a transactional framework for low-latency, high-performance, concurrent event processing in Java. At the heart of our framework lies Reflexes, a restricted prog...
Antonio Cunei, Rachid Guerraoui, Jesper Honig Spri...
COORDINATION
2009
Springer
15 years 2 days ago
Exceptionally Safe Futures
A future is a well-known programming construct used to introduce concurrency to sequential programs. Computations annotated as futures are executed asynchronously and run concurren...
Armand Navabi, Suresh Jagannathan
COORDINATION
2009
Springer
15 years 2 days ago
Hop, a Fast Server for the Diffuse Web
The diffuse Web is an alternative way of using the Web 2.0 infrastructure for building personal diffuse applications. Systems that let users tune the temperature of their house wit...
Manuel Serrano