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Research Archive
The Research archive provides access to all Research articles published in past issues of Communications of the ACM.
September 2008
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Technical Perspective: Transactional Memory in the Operating System
The long tradition of building ever-faster processors is ending, with the computer industry instead putting more processing "cores" on each processor chip. Therefore, to continue…
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Distributed Selection: A Missing Piece of Data Aggregation
In this article, we study the problem of distributed selection from a theoretical point of view. Given a general connected graph of diameter D consisting of n nodes in which each node holds a numeric element, the goal of a k-selection…
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TxLinux and MetaTM: Transactional Memory and the Operating System
TxLinux is the first operating system to use hardware transactional memory (HTM) as a synchronization primitive, and the first to manage HTM in the scheduler. TxLinux, a modification of Linux, is the first real-scale benchmark…
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