Communications of the ACM
Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
July 2010
From Communications of the ACM
Technical Perspective: A Solid Foundation For X86 Shared Memory
Multithreaded programs that communicate through shared memory are pervasive. Today they are the most obvious route to using multiple available processor cores…
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Phase Change Memory Architecture and the Quest For Scalability
Memory scaling is in jeopardy as charge storage and sensing mechanisms become less reliable for prevalent memory technologies. In contrast, phase change memory relies on programmable resistances, as well as scalable current and…
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Technical Perspective: Technology Scaling Redirects Main Memories
As predicted by Intel's Gordon Moore in 1965, the number of transistors that can be integrated on one die continues to double approximately every two years. Amazing to some…
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X86-TSO: A Rigorous and Usable Programmer's Model For X86 Multiprocessors
Exploiting the multiprocessors that have recently become ubiquitous requires high-performance and reliable concurrent systems code. However, concurrent programming, which is always challenging, is made much more so by two problems…