The past few years have seen an explosion of interest in programming languages, systems, and hardware to support transactions, speculation, and related alternatives to classical lock-based concurrency. This workshop, the fourth in its series, will provide a forum for the presentation of research on all aspects of transactional computing.
This year TRANSACT is co-located with PPoPP and HPCA.
Registration and Workshop Information
For online registration, hotel information, etc., see the PPoPP homepage.
Program
Welcome (8:20)
TMUNIT: Testing Transactional Memories (8:30)
Derin Harmanci, Pascal Felber, Vincent Gramoli and Christof Fetzer
Strong Isolation is a Weak Idea (8:55)
Luke Dalessandro and Michael Scott
Condition Variables and Transactional Memory: Problem or
Opportunity? (9:20)
Polina Dudnik and Michael Swift
Inherent Limitations on Transactional Memory Implementations (9:45)
Hagit Attiya, Eshcar Hillel and Alessia Milani
Break (10:10)
A Case for using Value Prediction to improve performance of
transactional memory (10:40)
Salil Pant and Dr. Greg Byrd
Transactional Value Prediction (11:05)
Fuad Tabba, Andrew W. Hay and James R. Goodman
Hardware support for serializable transaction: a study of
feasibility and performance (11:30)
Utku Aydonat and Tarek Abdelrahman
Lunch (12:00)
Adaptive Locks: Combining Transactions and Locks for Efficient
Concurrency (1:00)
Takayuki Usui, Yannis Smaragdakis and Reimer Behrends
Concurrent Non-commutative Boosted Transactions (1:25)
Eric Koskinen and Maurice Herlihy
The Xfork in the Road to Coordinated Sibling Transactions (1:50)
Hany Ramadan and Emmett Witchel
RMS-TM: A Transactional Memory Benchmark for Recognition, Mining and
Synthesis Applications (2:15)
Gokcen Kestor, Srdjan Stipic, Osman Unsal,
Adrian Cristal and Mateo Valero
Break (2:40)
Anatomy of a Scalable Software Transactional Memory (3:10)
Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, Virendra
Marathe, Mark Moir, Dan Nussbaum and Marek Olszewski
TLRW: Return of the Read-Write Lock (3:35)
David Dice and Nir Shavit
Transacting Pointer-based Accesses in an Object-based Software
Transactional Memory System (4:00)
David Detlefs and Lingli Zhang
Transactional Mutex Locks (4:25)
Michael Spear, Arrvindh Shriraman, Luke
Dalessandro and Michael Scott
Wrap-up (4:50)
Questions?
Contact the program chair.Previous Workshops
TRANSACT 2008, Salt Lake City, UtahTRANSACT 2007, Portland, Oregon
TRANSACT 2006, Ottawa, Canada
Important Dates
| Submission deadline: | November 21, 2008, 11:59PM PST (deadline is firm) |
| Author notification: | January 14, 2009 |
| Final copy due: | February 4, 2009 |
| Workshop: | February 15, 2009 |
Full call for papers: html pdf text
Submit your paper
See the call for papers for submission specifications.General Chair
Craig Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignProgram Chair
Dan Grossman, University of WashingtonProgram Committee
Hans-J. Boehm, HP LabsSandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester
Faith Ellen, University of Toronto
Rob Ennals, Intel Research
Christof Fetzer, Dresden University of Technology
Tom Henzinger, EPFL
Milo Martin, University of Pennsylvania
Maged Michael, IBM Research
Mark Moir, Sun Microsystems
Kevin Moore, Sun Microsystems
Tatiana Shpeisman, Intel
Michael Swift, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Serdar Tasiran, Koc University
Michal Young, University of Oregon
Steering Committee
Babak Falsafi, EPFLPascal Felber, University of Neuchatel
Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL
Tim Harris, Microsoft Research
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University
Tony Hosking, Purdue University
Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University
Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego
Maged Michael, IBM Research
Eliot Moss, University of Massachusetts
Michael Scott, University of Rochester
Jan Vitek, Purdue University