This paper presents the most exhaustive study of synchronization to date. We span multiple
layers, from hardware cache-coherence protocols up to high-level concurrent software. We …

In-memory key-value stores are critical components that help scale large internet services by
providing low-latency access to popular data. Memcached, one of the most popular key …

Although significant recent progress has been made in improving the multi-core scalability of
high throughput transactional database systems, modern systems still fail to achieve …

Explores the firewall security and performance relationships for distributed systems.
Experiments are conducted to set firewall security into seven different levels and to quantify …

Multicore machines are quickly shifting to NUMA and CC-NUMA architectures, making
scalable NUMA-aware locking algorithms, ones that take into account the machine's …

Large-scale multicore architectures create new challenges for garbage collectors (GCs). In
particular, throughput-oriented stop-the-world algorithms demonstrate good performance …

Writing concurrent programs is a challenge because developers must consider both
functional correctness and performance requirements. Numerous program analyses and …

We systematically survey the literature on analytically sound multiprocessor real-time
locking protocols from 1988 until the end of 2017, covering the following topics: Progress …

• Motivation• Implementing all existing locks into all applications is laborious• No existing
library to try a lock implementation easily• LiTL: lock library on top of Pthread Mutex lock API• …

A coherent global address space in a distributed system enables shared memory
programming in a much larger scale than a single multicore or a single SMP. Without …