POPL
2012
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
2012
ACM
We present an analysis which takes as its input a sequential program, augmented with annotations indicating potential parallelization opportunities, and a sequential proof, writte...
CONCUR
2011
Springer
13 years 7 days ago
2011
Springer
The problem of model checking threads interacting purely via the standard synchronization primitives is key for many concurrent program analyses, particularly dataflow analysis. U...
ESOP
2011
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2011
Springer
We develop and prove sound a concurrent separation logic for a language with Pthreads-style barriers. Although Pthreads barriers are widely used in systems, and separation logic is...
ISCAS
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2011
IEEE
Abstract— Multi-core processors are about to conquer embedded systems — it is not the question of whether they are coming but how the architectures of the microcontrollers shou...
EMSOFT
2010
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2010
Springer
Constructing correct distributed systems from their high-level models has always been a challenge and often subject to serious errors because of their non-deterministic and non-at...
CACM
2008
14 years 16 days ago
2008
TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux, which is a ...
CAV
2010
Springer
2010
Springer
Universal Causality Graphs: A Precise Happens-Before Model for Detecting Bugs in Concurrent Programs
14 years 2 months ago
Triggering errors in concurrent programs is a notoriously difficult task. A key reason for this is the behavioral complexity resulting from the large number of interleavings of op...
HPCA
2000
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2000
IEEE
Efficiency of synchronization mechanisms can limit the parallel performance of many shared-memory applications. In addition, the ever increasing performance gap between processor...
DAMON
2009
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
2009
Springer
Database engines face growing scalability challenges as core counts exponentially increase each processor generation, and the efficiency of synchronization primitives used to prot...