Transactional memory (TM) is a promising paradigm for concurrent programming. This paper is an overview of our recent theoretical work on defining a theory of TM. We first recall some TM correctness properties and then overview results on the inherent power and limitations of TMs.

Big data is a buzzword used to describe massive volumes of data that provides opportunities of exploring new insights through data analytics. However, big data is mostly structured but can be semi-structured or unstructured. It is normally so large that it is not only difficult but also slow to process using traditional computing systems. One of the solutions is to format the data as graph data...

Jafri, Syed Ali, Raza. Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2013. Improving Multicore Resource Efficiency. Major Professors: T. N. Vijaykumar and Mithuna Thottethodi. With clock speeds stagnating for the last few years and multi-cores having replaced uniprocessors, software development must now turn towards shared memory parallel programming to continue enhancing performance. Shared memory parall...

In the West, Translation Studies as a discipline has a very short but lively history. Founded in the early 1970s in the Low Countries—Holland and Belgium—translation studies is a fairly new field. Yet, today some theorists suggest that the discipline is too limited to translated texts and excludes much translation data being generated from other fields of inquiry, including theater, art, archit...

Transactional memory (TM) is an alternative synchronization model for shared in memory data objects that promise to alleviate difficulties with lock-based synchronization (e.g., lack of compositionality, deadlocks, lock convoying). A transaction is a sequence of operations, performed by a single thread, for reading and writing shared objects. Distributed TM is motivated by the similar difficult...

Integration is the operative term in today’s localization (L10N) and translation environments. Translation departments and companies, as well as some individual translators, who have already grown accustomed to using workbench systems that combine translation memory (TM) with terminology management systems (TMS) are rapidly moving on to include an array of L10N utilities and machine translation...

The arrival of best-effort hardware transactional memory (TM) creates a challenge for designers of transactional memory runtime libraries. On the one hand, using hardware TM can dramatically reduce the latency of transactions. On the other, it is critical to create a fall-back path to handle the cases where hardware TM cannot complete a transaction, and this path ought to be scalable and reason...

The imminent arrival of best-effort transactional hardware has spurred new interest in the construction of nonblocking data structures, such as those that require atomic updates to k words of memory (for some small value of k). Since transactional memory itself (TM) was originally proposed as a universal construction for crafting scalable lock-free data structures, we explore the possibility of...

Keywords: dialog translation, memory (example)-based translation, parallel marker passing, Korean language processing A bi-directional Korean/English dialog translation system is designed and implemented using the memory-based translation technique. The system KEMDT (Korean/English Memory-based Dialog Translation system) can perform Korean to English, and English to Korean translation using uni...

Transactional memory (TM), a recent parallel programming concept, aims to simplify parallel programming while simultaneously maintaining performance benefits found in concurrent applications. Consistency checking, the manner in which memory conflicts are identified in transactional memory, is a critical aspect to TM system performance. We present a theoretical, analytical and empirical view of ...