Publications related to Critical section

Inter-actions parallel execution on GPU from high-level dataflow synthesis

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Recent GPU architectures make available numbers of parallel processing units that exceed by orders of magnitude the ones offered by CPU architectures. Whereas programs written using dataflow programming languages are well suited for programming heterogeneo ...

IEEE2022

The RECIPE approach to challenges in deeply heterogeneous high performance systems

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho

RECIPE (REliable power and time-ConstraInts-aware Predictive management of heterogeneous Exascale systems) is a recently started project funded within the H2020 FETHPC programme, which is expressly targeted at exploring new High-Performance Computing (HPC) ...

ELSEVIER2020

OneFile: A Wait-free Persistent Transactional Memory

Nachshon Cohen, Pascal Felber

A persistent transactional memory (PTM) library provides an easy-to-use interface to programmers for using byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM). Previously proposed PTMs have, so far, been blocking. We present OneFile, the first wait-free PTM with in ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2019

Lock-Unlock: Is That All? A Pragmatic Analysis of Locking in Software Systems

Rachid Guerraoui, Vasileios Trigonakis

A plethora of optimized mutex lock algorithms have been designed over the past 25 years to mitigate performance bottlenecks related to critical sections and locks. Unfortunately, there is currently no broad study of the behavior of these optimized lock alg ...

2019

Asynchronous Simulation of Neuronal Activity

Bruno Ricardo Da Cunha Magalhães

Simulations of the electrical activity of networks of morphologically-detailed neuron models allow for a better understanding of the brain. Short time to solution is critical in order to study long biological processes such as synaptic plasticity and learn ...

EPFL2019

Rapid and Digital Detection of Inflammatory Biomarkers Enabled by a Novel Portable Nanoplasmonic Imager

Hatice Altug, Filiz Yesilköy, Alexander Belushkin

New point-of-care diagnostic devices are urgently needed for rapid and accurate diagnosis, particularly in the management of life-threatening infections and sepsis, where immediate treatment is key. Sepsis is a critical condition caused by systemic respons ...

2019

Shared-variable Synchronization Approaches for Dynamic Data Flow Programs

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Apostolos Modas, Junaid Jameel Ahmad

This paper presents shared-variable synchronization approaches for dataflow programming. The mechanisms do not require any substantial model of computation (MoC) modification, and is portable across both for hardware (HW) and software (SW) low-level code s ...

IEEE2018

Exploiting Circuit Duality to Speed Up SAT

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Luca Gaetano Amarù, Maciej Jerzy Ciesielski

In this paper, we establish a non-trivial duality between tautology and contradiction check to speed up circuit SAT. Tautology check determines if a logic circuit is true in every possible interpretation. Analogously, contradiction check dete ...

IEEE2015

Applying HTM to an OLTP System: No Free Lunch

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Danica Porobic, David Cervini

Transactional memory is a promising way for implementing efficient synchronization mechanisms for multicore processors. Intel's introduction of hardware transactional memory (HTM) into their Haswell line of processors marks an important step toward mainstr ...

2015

On the Performance of Delegation over Cache-Coherent Shared Memory

André Schiper, Thomas Ropars, Darko Petrovic

Delegation is a thread synchronization technique where access to shared data is performed through a dedicated server thread. When a client thread requires shared data access, it makes a request to a server and waits for a response. This paper studies deleg ...

2015

Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores

Pinar Tözün

For several decades, online transaction processing (OLTP) has been one of the main server applications that drives innovations in the data management ecosystem, and in turn the database and computer architecture communities. Recent hardware trends oblige s ...

EPFL2014

Limit Behaviour of the Voter Model, Exclusion Process and Regenerative Chains

Samuel Schöpfer

Though the following topics seem unlinked, most of the tools used in this thesis are related to random walks and renewal theory. After introducing the voter model, we consider the parabolic Anderson model with the voter model as catalyst. In GÄRTNER, DEN H ...

EPFL2012

A Data-oriented Transaction Execution Engine and Supporting Tools

Anastasia Ailamaki, Pinar Tözün, Miguel Sérgio De Oliveira Branco, Frederick Ryan Johnson, Danica Porobic, Ippokratis Pandis, Dimitrios Karampinas

Conventional OLTP systems assign each transaction to a worker thread and that thread accesses data, depending on what the transaction dictates. This thread-to-transaction work assignment policy leads to unpredictable accesses. The unpredictability forces e ...

2011

Émulation de mémoire partagée en environnements distribués dynamiques

Vincent Gramoli

Most distributed systems are large-scale and dynamic. Communication has thus become a critical issue and the shared memory, which is a reliable paradigm of communication, allow distributed nodes to exchange information through read and write operations. In ...

2011

High-Performance Transactional Event Processing

Rachid Guerraoui, Jesper Honig Spring, Antonio Cunei

This paper presents a transactional framework for low-latency, high-performance, concurrent event processing in Java. At the heart of our framework lies Reﬂexes, a restricted programming model for highly responsive systems. A Reﬂex task is an event process ...

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On the Correctness of Transactional Memory

Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Kapalka

Transactional memory (TM) is perceived as an appealing alternative to critical sections for general purpose concurrent programming. Despite the large amount of recent work on TM implementations, however, very little effort has been devoted to precisely def ...

2008