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MICA: A Holistic Approach to Fast In-Memory Key-Value Storage

2018-05-15

MICA: A Holistic Approach to Fast In-Memory Key-Value Storage Hyeontaek Lim, Dongsu Han, David G. Andersen, and Michael Kaminsky in Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI ’14).  April 2-4, 2014, Seattle, WA. It’s time to turn attention to key value stores.  There are quite a few papers on this […]

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Boosting Timestamp-based Transactional Memory by Exploiting Hardware Cycle Counters

2018-05-14

Boosting Timestamp-based Transactional Memory by Exploiting Hardware Cycle Counters Wenjia Ruan, Yujie Liu, and Michael Spear, in ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), Volume 10, Number 4, page 40, 2013, ACM. This paper is interesting in its use of a system level global clock to define a strong ordering of operations across cores.  The […]

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Message Passing or Shared Memory: Evaluating the Delegation Abstraction for Multicores

2018-05-01

Message Passing or Shared Memory: Evaluating the Delegation Abstraction for Multicores Irina Calciu, Dave Dice, Tim Harris, Maurice Herlihy, Alex Kogan, Virendra Marathe, and Mark Moir, in International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, pp. 83-97, 2013, Springer. The issue of isolation versus sharing is one that permeates systems design for the past 50 plus years. […]

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