Встреча JUG.ru c Maurice Herlihy — Transactional Memory and Beyond

A new generation of processor architectures provides hardware transactional memory (HTM), a synchronization mechanism for fast in-memory transactions. This talk will argue that HTM is not just a faster way of doing the same old latches and monitors. Instead, it could bring about a fundamental positive change in the way we program multicores (and eventually perhaps even databases) by allowing us to rethink basic synchronization structures such as locks, memory management, and a variety of concurrent data structures.

О докладчике

Maurice Herlihy has an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T. He has served on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University, on the staff of DEC Cambridge Research Lab, and is currently the An Wang Professor in the Computer Science Department at Brown University.

He is the recipient of

• the 2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing
• the 2004 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science
• the 2008 ISCA influential paper award
• the 2012 Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize
• the 2013 Wallace McDowell award.

Maurice received a 2012 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Lecturing Fellowship, and he is fellow of the ACM, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is one of the authors of "The Art of Multiprocessor Programming" book, well-known textbook about parallel programming.

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