Informatics Seminar on Wednesday, May 28 at 16.30 - Prof. Michal Young
Decanato - Facoltà di scienze informatiche
Data d'inizio: 28 Maggio 2008
Data di fine: 29 Maggio 2008
The Faculty of Informatics is pleased to announce a seminar given by Prof. Michal Young
TITLE: Transactions with Isolation and Cooperation
SPEAKER: Prof. Michal Young, Faculty of Informatics, USI Università della Svizzera italiana
DATE: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
PLACE: USI Università della Svizzera italiana, room SI-006, Informatics building (Via G. Buffi 13)
TIME: 16.30-17.30
ABSTRACT:
Transactions, or sequences of actions that give the illusion of executing atomically, are a recurring theme in design of parallel systems ranging from memory systems to database systems. Today, the rise of multicore computers has stimulated a rush of research to find programming models that can support ordinary programmers in writing efficient but simple multi-threaded programs, and transactional memory is a leading candidate for such a model. I will describe the TIC (Transactions with Isolation and Cooperation) model and place it in the wider context of a search for a model that balances local reasoning and simplicity with generality and efficiency.
