
Transactional Memory
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
2nd Edition
Published on 30. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
263 pages
978-1-60845-235-4 (ISBN)
Description
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, to a language runtime system, or to 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 spring 2010.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 187 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-60845-235-4 (9781608452354)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
- Introduction
- Basic Transactions
- Building on Basic Transactions
- Software Transactional Memory
- Hardware-Supported Transactional Memory
- Conclusions
- Basic Transactions
- Building on Basic Transactions
- Software Transactional Memory
- Hardware-Supported Transactional Memory
- Conclusions