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TM2C: A software transactional memory for many-cores

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli, Vasileios Trigonakis

Transactional memory is an appealing paradigm for concurrent programming. Many software implementations of the paradigm were proposed in the last decades for both shared memory multi-core systems and clusters of distributed machines. However, chip manufact ...

2012

Obstruction degree: measuring concurrency in shared memory systems

Rachid Guerraoui, Mihai Letia

This paper presents the notion of obstruction degree, a new metric for reasoning about the scalability of concurrent algorithms. Essentially, this simple metric gives an indication as to which of two concurrent algorithms is expected to scale better, as we ...

2012

Concurrent Tries with Efficient Non-Blocking Snapshots

Martin Odersky, Aleksandar Prokopec

We describe a non-blocking concurrent hash trie based on shared-memory single-word compare-and-swap instructions. The hash trie supports standard mutable lock-free operations such as insertion, removal, lookup and their conditional variants. To ensure spac ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2012

Transaction Polymorphism

Rachid Guerraoui, Vincent Gramoli

Concurrent implementations of abstract types usually rely on lock-free primitives or locks and are highly tuned to support a finite set of efficient operations. However, it is very hard to extend such types for specific needs by adding new operations. The ...

2011

Laws of Order: Expensive Synchronization in Concurrent Algorithms Cannot be Eliminated

Rachid Guerraoui, Hagit Albo Attiya

Building correct and efﬁcient concurrent algorithms is known to be a difﬁcult problem of fundamental importance. To achieve ef- ﬁciency, designers try to remove unnecessary and costly synchro- nization. However, not only is this manual trial-and-error proc ...

2011

Laws of order

Rachid Guerraoui, Hagit Albo Attiya

Building correct and efficient concurrent algorithms is known to be a difficult problem of fundamental importance. To achieve efficiency, designers try to remove unnecessary and costly synchronization. However, not only is this manual trial-and-error proce ...

2011

Cache-Aware Lock-Free Concurrent Hash Tries

Martin Odersky, Aleksandar Prokopec

This report describes an implementation of a non-blocking concurrent shared-memory hash trie based on single-word compare-and-swap instructions. Insert, lookup and remove operations modifying different parts of the hash trie can be run independent of each ...

2011

Theory of Transactional Memory

Michal Kapalka

Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for concurrent programming, in which threads of an application communicate, and synchronize their actions, via inmemory transactions. Each transaction can perform any number of operations on shared data, an ...

EPFL2010

Formalizing and verifying transactional memories

Vasu Singh

Transactional memory (TM) has shown potential to simplify the task of writing concurrent programs. TM shifts the burden of managing concurrency from the programmer to the TM algorithm. The correctness of TM algorithms is generally proved manually. The goal ...

EPFL2010

Leveraging Parallel Nesting in Transactional Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Aleksandar Dragojevic

Exploiting the emerging reality of affordable multi-core architectures goes through providing programmers with simple abstractions that would enable them to easily turn their sequential programs into concurrent ones that expose as much parallelism as possi ...

ACM2010