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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...
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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...
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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...
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Technical Perspective: Distributing Your Data and Having It, Too
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Technical Perspective: A Methodology For Evaluating Computer System Performance
Computer science has long had a solid foundation for evaluating the performance of algorithms. The asymptotic...
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Technical Perspective: Transactions Are Tomorrow's Loads and Stores
In computer science, when we say "time is money," we typically refer to two types of time that determine the costs and benefits...
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Composable Memory Transactions
In this paper we present a concurrency model based on transactional memory. All the usualblocking and choice...
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Wake Up and Smell the Coffee: Evaluation Methodology For the 21st Century
Evaluation methodology underpins all innovation in experimental computer science. It requires relevant workloads, appropriate experimental design, and rigorous...
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Technical Perspective: Computer Science Takes on Molecular Dynamics
The following paper by researcher David Shaw and colleagues describes their Anton molecular dynamics engine....
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Anton, A Special-Purpose Machine For Molecular Dynamics Simulation
The ability to perform long, accurate molecular dynamics (MD) simulations involving proteins and other biological macro-molecules could in principle provide answers...
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The Emergence of a Networking Primitive in Wireless Sensor Networks
The wireless sensor network community approached networking abstractions as an open question, allowing answers to emerge with time and experience. The Trickle algorithm...
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