transactional memory

An Effective Hybrid Transactional Memory System with Strong Isolation Guarantees
We propose signature-accelerated transactional memory (SigTM), ahybrid TM system that reduces the overhead of software transactions. …
Chi Cao Minh, Martin Trautmann, JaeWoong Chung, Austen McDonald, Nathan Bronson, Jared Casper, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun
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RAMP: Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors
The RAMP project’s goal is to enable the intensive, multidisciplinary innovation that the computing industry will need to tackle …
John Wawrzynek, David Patterson, Mark Oskin, Shih-Lien Lu, Christos Kozyrakis, James C. Hoe, Derek Chiou, Krste Asanović
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Transactional Collection Classes
While parallel programmers find it easier to reason about large atomic regions, the conventional mutual exclusion-based primitives for …
Brian D. Carlstrom, Austen McDonald, Michael Carbin, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun
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Transactional Programming in a Multi-Core Environment
With single thread performance starting to plateau, HW architects have turned to chip level multiprocessing (CMP) to increase …
Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Christos Kozyrakis, Bratin Saha
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Transactional Memory: The Hardware-Software Interface
This comprehensive architecture supports nested transactions, transaction handling, and two-phase commit. The result is a seamless …
Austen McDonald, Brian D. Carlstrom, JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Hassan Chafi, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun
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Tradeoffs in Transactional Memory Virtualization
For transactional memory (TM) to achieve widespread acceptance, transactions should not be limited to the physical resources of any …
JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Austen McDonald, Travis Skare, Hassan Chafi, Brian D. Carlstrom, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun
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Testing Implementations of Transactional Memory
Transactional memory is an attractive design concept for scalable multiprocessors because it offers efficient lock-free synchronization …
Chaiyasit Manovit, Sudheendra Hangal, Hassan Chafi, Austen McDonald, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun
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The Atomos Transactional Programming Language
Atomos is the first programming language with implicit transactions, strong atomicity, and a scalable multiprocessor implementation. …
Brian D. Carlstrom, Austen McDonald, Hassan Chafi, JaeWoong Chung, Chi Cao Minh, Christos Kozyrakis, Kunle Olukotun
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