Re: [perf-discuss] transactional memory + power efficiency

2007-10-26 Thread Rayson Ho
There's also a talk "Transactional Memory at Sun" by Mark Moir: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4575567975642725150 The Google Engineer is Luiz Barroso (http://www.barroso.org). He worked for Compaq research before joining Google. At Compaq, he worked on the Piranha project, which IMO is v

Re: [perf-discuss] transactional memory + power efficiency

2007-10-26 Thread Peter Damron
You might want to look at: http://research.sun.com/scalable/ There are some papers there from one of the Sun Labs research groups on transactional memory and related topics. Peter. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ perf-discuss mailing li

Re: [perf-discuss] transactional memory + power efficiency

2007-10-25 Thread johansen
Prof Mark D. Hill had a paper published in ISCA this year titled Performance Pathologies in Hardware Transactional Memory. It's available here: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/multifacet/papers/isca07_pathologies.pdf It's a worthwhile read. -j On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:41:48PM -0300, Rafael Vanoni wr

[perf-discuss] transactional memory + power efficiency

2007-10-25 Thread Rafael Vanoni
Hi everyone I'm here at SBAC-PAD (that's an International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing). I've been attending various interesting talks and though I'd share a couple with you. Earlier today I attended a talk by prof.Kunle Olukotun about transactional memory,