With the increasing use of multicore CPUs in computers, programmers have to learn new techniques for parallel processing. One very promising approach is transactional memory. The primary problem for ...

Transactional memory systems aim to simplify the development of correct and efficient parallel software by treating sequences of reads and writes to shared memory as transactions. Similar to database ...

PALO ALTO, CA—IBM has become the first company to ship a commercial microprocessor using transactional memory, a new feature for multicore chips researchers have studied for years. The BlueGene/Q ...

At Hot Chips last week, IBM talked about BlueGene/Q, the processor powering the 20 petaflops Sequoia supercomputer. Designed for power-efficient floating point processing, the processor has one ...

You may want to enable or disable Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (Intel TSX) capability for those processors that expose the necessary processor ...

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