The Bluespec hardware-description language presents a significantly higher-level view than
hardware engineers are used to, exposing a simpler concurrency model that promotes …

The performance of microprocessors that power modern computers has continued to
increase exponentially over the years for two main reasons. First, the transistors that are the …

The latest techniques and principles of parallel and grid database processing The growth in
grid databases, coupled with the utility of parallel query processing, presents an important …

In recent years, microprocessor manufacturers have shifted their focus from single-core to
multi-core processors. To avoid burdening programmers with the responsibility of …

Streamlined Design Solutions Specifically for NoCTo solve critical network-on-chip (NoC)
architecture and design problems related to structure, performance and modularity …

Exploiting thread level parallelism is paramount in the multicore era. Transactions enable
programmers to expose such parallelism by greatly simplifying the multi-threaded …

Multicore architectures are an inflection point in mainstream software development because
they force developers to write parallel programs. In a previous article in Queue, Herb Sutter …

Hardware Transactional Memory offers a promising high performance and easier to program
alternative to lock-based synchronization for creating parallel programs. This is particularly …

Historically, advances in integrated circuit technology have driven improvements in
processor microarchitecture and led to todays microprocessors with sophisticated pipelines …

We consider the problem of implementing transactional memory in large-scale distributed
networked systems. We present Spiral, a novel distributed directory-based protocol for …