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Optimizing dynamic memory allocation for software transactional memory systems

Grant number: 12/12486-2
Support Opportunities:Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
Effective date (Start): August 01, 2012
Effective date (End): July 31, 2013
Field of knowledge:Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
Principal Investigator:Alexandro José Baldassin
Grantee:Matheus Antonio da Silva
Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
Associated research grant:11/19373-6 - Understanding and exploiting energy/performance tradeoffs in concurrent algorithms, AP.JP

Abstract

The widespread use of multicore processors has renewed the interest in parallelism. In particular, a new concurrent programming paradigm known as transactional memory has attracted the attention of both Academy and Industry. The major difference from the transactional approach to the classicalsynchronization methods such as locks is on its higher abstraction level, an essential element for the development and maintenance of concurrent applications. However, software implementation of the transactional framework are largely criticized for its low performance. As a result, much of the research conducted in the last years has focused on the improvement of transactionalalgorithms so that the performance overhead can be reduced. Following this research line, this project aims at improving the efficiency of the software implementations of the transactional mechanism by exploiting an aspect that received little attention: dynamic memory allocation performed among transactions. Initially we intend to analyze the performance overhead due to the dynamic allocator and, based on this analysis, we seek to propose an allocation methodology especially devised to the transactional memory domain. (AU)

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