Publications by Darko Petrovic

Efficient Communication and Synchronization on Manycore Processors

The increased number of cores integrated on a chip has brought about a number of challenges. Concerns about the scalability of cache coherence protocols have urged both researchers and practitioners to explore alternative programming models, where cache co ...

EPFL2015

On the Performance of Delegation over Cache-Coherent Shared Memory

André Schiper, Darko Petrovic, Thomas Ropars

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

Leveraging Hardware Message Passing for Efficient Thread Synchronization

André Schiper, Darko Petrovic, Thomas Ropars

As the level of parallelism in manycore processors keeps increasing, providing efficient mechanisms for thread synchronization in concurrent programs is becoming a major concern. On cache-coherent shared-memory processors, synchronization efficiency is ult ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

Leveraging Hardware Message Passing for Efficient Thread Synchronization

André Schiper, Darko Petrovic, Thomas Ropars

As the level of parallelism in manycore processors keeps increasing, providing efficient mechanisms for thread synchronization in concurrent programs is becoming a major concern. On cache-coherent shared-memory processors, synchronization efficiency is ult ...

2014

High-Performance RMA-Based Broadcast on the Intel SCC

André Schiper, Omid Shahmirzadi, Darko Petrovic, Thomas Ropars

Many-core chips with more than 1000 cores are expected by the end of the decade. To overcome scalability issues related to cache coherence at such a scale, one of the main research directions is to leverage the message-passing programming model. The Intel ...

2012

Asynchronous Broadcast on the Intel SCC using Interrupts

André Schiper, Omid Shahmirzadi, Darko Petrovic, Thomas Ropars

This paper focuses on the design of an asynchronous broadcast primitive on the Intel SCC. Our solution is based on OC-Bcast, a state-of-the-art k-ary tree synchronous broadcast algorithm that leverages the parallelism provided by on-chip Remote Memory Acce ...

2012

Implementing Virtual Machine Replication: A Case Study using Xen and KVM

André Schiper, Darko Petrovic

Virtual machine (VM) replication has been recognized as an inexpensive way of providing high availability on commodity hardware. Unfortunately, its impact on system performance is far from negligible and strategies have been proposed to mitigate this probl ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2012