Many modern and emerging applications must process increasingly large volumes of data.
Unfortunately, prevalent computing paradigms are not designed to efficiently handle such …

Transactional Memory (TM) is emerging as a promising technology to simplify parallel
programming. While several TM systems have been proposed in the research literature, we …

Many of the challenges in building shared-memory data structures stem from needing to
update several memory locations at once—eg, updating four pointers to insert an item into a …

Cache partitioning has a wide range of uses in CMPs, from guaranteeing quality of service
and controlled sharing to security-related techniques. However, existing cache partitioning …

Specialized on-chip accelerators are widely used to improve the energy efficiency of
computing systems. Recent advances in memory technology have enabled near-data …

Software transactional memory: why is it only a research toy? Page 1 40 communications of the
acm | NovEmbER 2008 | vol. 51 | No. 11 practice trAnsActionAL MEMorY (TM)13 is a …

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 …

This paper proposes a hardware transactional memory (HTM) system called LogTM
Signature Edition (LogTM-SE). LogTM-SE uses signatures to summarize a transactions read …

The ever-increasing importance of main memory latency and bandwidth is pushing CMPs
towards caches with higher capacity and associativity. Associativity is typically improved by …

We propose signature-accelerated transactional memory (SigTM), ahybrid TM system that
reduces the overhead of software transactions. SigTM uses hardware signatures to track the …