Where does transactional memory research stand and what challenges lie ahead?: WTM 2012, EuroTM workshop on transactional memory

  • Authors:
  • Maria Couceiro;Paolo Romano

  • Affiliations:
  • IST/INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal;IST/INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising technology that aims to simplify parallel programming by providing a programmer friendly alternative to traditional lock-based concurrency. The past ten years have seen intense research work on software and hardware TM proposals, and has recently led to the first hardware TM implementation for a commodity high-performance microprocessor, and to the inclusion of TM support in the world's leading open source compiler. EuroTM (COST Action IC1001), in collaboration with the CloudTM project1, organized the second edition of the EuroTM Workshop on Transactional Memory (WTM 2012). The objective of WTM was to discuss new developments for this era of maturing TM research. The workshop took place on April 10, in Bern, Switzerland, in conjunction with Eurosys 2012. Below we give highlights on the topics discussed in the workshop.