In Transactional Memory workloads, conflicts among transactions necessitate that some transactions either block, or else abort. The more common approach, aborting, is under-studied. Much effort has explored the use of schedulers and gatekeepers when the global abort rate is high. Handling short spikes in the abort rate, especially due to a single transaction with a high likelihood of conflict, ...

principal investigator for the team. His collaborators were Jean-Pierre Kinet, a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School who first cloned the gene for the IgE receptor in 1986, and Scott Garman, a postdoctoral fellow in the Northwestern Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology. About 50 million people in the United States have some form of allergy. Many allergies...