With the increasing use of multicore CPUs in computers, programmers have to learn new techniques for parallel processing. One very promising approach is transactional memory. The primary problem for ...

Is there someone who can give a relatively simple rundown of the new technology called "transactional memory"? Why is this kind of memory starting to pop up now (Blue Gene/Q, POWER8, Haswell,…) and ...

Multi-threaded code is a huge source of software bugs. It's more complex, more difficult, and harder to grasp mentally than single threaded coded. But it's in everything. If this lives up to the ...

Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.