The earliest paper on Transactional Memory that can be found – Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures – was written about twenty years ago. It’s hard to say what all ...

Executing a notion of a transaction, and doing it without any such locks, is also one of the attributes of transactional memory. Before I go on, although the term transactional memory is based on all ...

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 ...

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 ...