WormBench - A configurable workload for evaluating transactional memory systems

Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques - Conference Proceedings, PACT

Volumn 310, Issue , 2008, Pages 61-68

  Zyulkyarov, Ferad ^a,d   Cristal, Adrian ^a   Cvijic, Sanja ^b   Ayguade, Eduard ^a,d   Valero, Mateo ^a,d   Unsal, Osman ^a   Harris, Tim ^c  

^a BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK SUITES; CONFIGURABLE; CRITICAL SECTIONS; MULTI-THREADED APPLICATION; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; PARAMETERIZED; RUNTIMES; SOFTWARE STACKS; SYNCHRONIZATION PROBLEM; SYSTEM INTERFACES; TIGHTLY-COUPLED; TRANSACTIONAL MEMORY;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 77954439403     PISSN: 1089795X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1509084.1509093     Document Type: Conference Paper

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