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LECTURE 5 A Brief History of TM

LECTURE 5 A Brief History of TM. Precursors of Computing: ENIAC. 5000 ops/second 486k $ in 1946 19k vacuum tubes 200K watts 67 cubic meters. Latest trends: Intel Nehalem. 1.9 billion transistors 12 billion ops per second 4 microprocessors 8 MB of on-chip memory 100 W

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Lock Behaviour Characterization of Commercial Workloads

Lock Behaviour Characterization of Commercial Workloads. <chang@cs.wisc.edu> <wxd@cs.wisc.edu>. Jichuan Chang Xidong Wang. Outline. Motivation Methods Results Speculative Lock Elision Issues Conclusions. Motivation. Understanding the Synchronization Behavior of Commercial Workloads

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Speculative Lock Elision

Speculative Lock Elision. Enabling Highly Concurrent Multithreaded Execution Ravi Rajwar and James R. Goodman University of Wisconsin-Madison. Motivation. Multithreaded Programming gains Importance SMPs, Multithreaded Architectures Used in non-traditional fields (Desktop)

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ECE 569 High Performance Processors and Systems

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