OS and Architecture Research at the AMD Operating System Research Center: ASF, the Advanced Synchronization Facility
- Date
- Jan 26, 2012
- Time
- 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Speaker
- Michael Hohmuth
- Affiliation
- Operating System Research Center, AMD, Dresden
- Series
- TUD ZIH Kolloquium
- Language
- en
- Main Topic
- Informatik
- Other Topics
- Informatik, Elektro- u. Informationstechnik
- Host
- Ralph Müller-Pfefferkorn
- Description
- In this talk, I will present the Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF), an experimental AMD64 architecture extension aimed at one of these trends, parallel computing. ASF is designed to make parallel programming easier by supporting two styles of writing parallel programs: lock-free programming and transactional programming.
Last modified: Jan 11, 2012, 7:39:05 PM
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Center for Information Services and High Performance ComputingZellescher Weg12-1401069Dresden
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