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Scalable Synchronization in Shared-Memory Systems: Extrapolating, Adapting, Tuning
As hardware evolves, so do the needs of applications. To increase the performance of an application,
there exist two well-known approaches. These are scaling up an application, using a larger multi-core
platform, or scaling out, by distributing work to mul ...
EPFL2018ESTIMA: Extrapolating ScalabiliTy of In-Memory Applications
Rachid Guerraoui, Aleksandar Dragojevic, Georgios Chatzopoulos
This article presents ESTIMA, an easy-to-use tool for extrapolating the scalability of in-memory applications. ESTIMA is designed to perform a simple yet important task: Given the performance of an application on a small machine with a handful of cores, ES ...
2017Efficient Logging in Non-Volatile Memory by Exploiting Coherency Protocols
James Richard Larus, Nachshon Cohen
Non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as PCM, ReRAM and STT-RAM allow processors to directly write values to persistent storage at speeds that are significantly faster than previous durable media such as hard drives or SSDs. Many applications of NVM ...
ACM2017Unlocking Energy
Rachid Guerraoui, Babak Falsafi, Vasileios Trigonakis, Javier Picorel Obando
Locks are a natural place for improving the energy efficiency of software systems. First, concurrent systems are mainstream and when their threads synchronize, they typically do it with locks. Second, locks are well-defined abstractions, hence changing the ...
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