CS258: Reading Assignment #21
Due Wednesday, April 30
The reading assignment for Wednesday for CS 258 is to read the
following
two papers:
Unbounded Transactional
Memory. C. Scott, Ananian Krste, Asanovi´c Bradley, C.
Kuszmaul, Charles E. Leiserson, and Sean Lie. In Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2005
Virtualizing Transactional
Memory. Ravi Rajwar, Maurice Herlihy, and Konrad Lai. In Proceedings of the International
Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 2005
Write one paragraph about each of these papers. You should briefly
summarize
the arguments, then describe your opinions on and reactions to
the
issues introduced in the papers.
