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Dividing Transactional Memories by Zero

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka, Aleksandar Dragojevic

Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for writing concurrent programs. So far, most STM approaches have been experimentally evaluated with small-scale microbenchmarks. In this paper, we present several surprising results from impleme ...

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The Semantics of Progress in Lock-Based Transactional Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka

Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for concurrent programming. Whereas the number of TM implementations is growing, however, little research has been conducted to precisely define TM semantics, especially their progress guarantees. This pape ...

2008

Toward a Theory of Input Acceptance for Transactional Memories

Vincent Gramoli, Pascal Felber

As opposed to database transactional systems, transactional memory (TM) systems are constrained by real-time while treating their input workload. Nevertheless, there is no clear formalization of how a TM should react regarding to a specific input. While TM ...

2008

Partial Snapshot Objects

Rachid Guerraoui, Eric Ruppert, Hagit Albo Attiya

We introduce a generalization of the atomic snapshot object, which we call the partial snapshot object. This object stores a vector of values. Processes may write components of the vector individually or atomically scan any subset of the components. We inv ...

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STMBench7: A Benchmark for Software Transactional Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka

Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than explicit coarse-grained locking and easier to use than fine-grained locking. However, STM im ...

2007

Whodunit: Transactional Profiling for Multi-Tier Applications

Willy Zwaenepoel

This paper is concerned with performance debugging of multi- tier applications, such as commonly found in servers and dynamic-content web sites. Existing tools and techniques for profiling such applications are not general enough to track and profile trans ...

2007

From unreliable objects to reliable objects: The case of atomic registers and consensus

Rachid Guerraoui

A concurrent object is an object that can be concurrently accessed by several processes. It has been shown by Maurice Herlihy that any concurrent object O defined by a sequential specification can be wait-free implemented from reliable atomic registers (sh ...

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Opacity: A Correctness Condition for Transactional Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka

Transactional memory is perceived as an appealing alternative to critical sections for general purpose concurrent programming. Despite the large amount of recent work on transactional memory implementations, however, its actual specification has never been ...

2007

STMBench7: A Benchmark for Software Transactional Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka

Software transactional memory (STM) is a promising technique for controlling concurrency in modern multi-processor architectures. STM aims to be more scalable than coarse-grained locking and easier to use than fine-grained locks. However, STM implementatio ...

2006

Transactional Memory

James Richard Larus

The advent of multicore processors has renewed interest in the idea of incorporating transactions into the programming model used to write parallel programs. This approach, known as transactional memory, offers an alternative, and hopefully better, way to ...

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