Is transactional memory an oxymoron? Export

@article{citeulike:3978146, abstract = {Transactional memory (TM) was invented 15 years ago [1]. Recently, however, TM activity has exploded [2], as the proliferation of multicore chips has provoked researchers to revisit support for parallel programming. Since some regard me as a TM expert, most of my talk will summarize TM's goals and implementation options, primarily by developing a taxonomy and using Wisconsin LogTM [3, 4] as a case study. In particular, I will consider TM implementations via software, hardware, and hybrids, as well as important design choices, such as how to buffer TM writes and when to detect TM conflicts.}, author = {Hill, Mark D.}, citeulike-article-id = {3978146}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1453856.1453858}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1453856.1453858}, comment = {http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/vldb08\_keynote.ppt}, doi = {10.1145/1453856.1453858}, journal = {Proc. VLDB Endow.}, keywords = {2008, 5, htm, keynote, txmem, vldb}, number = {1}, pages = {1}, posted-at = {2009-01-29 10:14:05}, priority = {0}, publisher = {VLDB Endowment}, title = {Is transactional memory an oxymoron?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1453856.1453858}, volume = {1}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3978146 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3978146 N2 - Transactional memory (TM) was invented 15 years ago [1]. Recently, however, TM activity has exploded [2], as the proliferation of multicore chips has provoked researchers to revisit support for parallel programming. Since some regard me as a TM expert, most of my talk will summarize TM's goals and implementation options, primarily by developing a taxonomy and using Wisconsin LogTM [3, 4] as a case study. In particular, I will consider TM implementations via software, hardware, and hybrids, as well as important design choices, such as how to buffer TM writes and when to detect TM conflicts. IS - 1 JF - Proc. VLDB Endow. EP - 1 TI - Is transactional memory an oxymoron? PB - VLDB Endowment VL - 1 SP - 1 KW - 2008 KW - 5 KW - htm KW - keynote KW - txmem KW - vldb N1 - http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/vldb08_keynote.ppt AU - Hill, Mark PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1453856.1453858 ER -