Format:
1 Online-Ressource (226 Seiten)
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
1598291254
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9781598291254
Series Statement:
Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture #2
Content:
The advent of multicore processors has renewed interest in the idea of incorporating transactions into the programming model used to write parallel programs. This approach, known as transactional memory, offers an alternative, and hopefully better, way to coordinate concurrent threads. The ACI (atomicity, consistency, isolation) properties of transactions provide a foundation to ensure that concurrent reads and writes of shared data do not produce inconsistent or incorrect results. At a higher level, a computation wrapped in a transaction executes atomically either it completes successfully and commits its result in its entirety or it aborts. In addition, isolation ensures the transaction produces the same result as if no other transactions were executing concurrently. Although transactions are not a parallel programming panacea, they shift much of the burden of synchronizing and coordinating parallel computations from a programmer to a compiler, runtime system, and hardware. The challenge for the system implementers is to build an efficient transactional memory infrastructure. This book presents an overview of the state of the art in the design and implementation of transactional memory systems, as of early summer 2006
Content:
Introduction -- Programming transactional memory -- Software transactional memory -- Hardware-supported transactional memory -- Conclusions
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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IntroductionProgramming transactional memory -- Software transactional memory -- Hardware-supported transactional memory -- Conclusions.
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1598291246
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781598291247
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Transactional Memory
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.2200/S00070ED1V01Y200611CAC002
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