Executing a notion of a transaction, and doing it without any such locks, is also one of the attributes of transactional memory. Before I go on, although the term transactional memory is based on all ...

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 ...

Intel has announced that its Haswell architecture, due to ship some time in 2013, will include hardware support for transactional memory. Transactional memory is a promising technique designed to make ...

Editor's Note: Multicore architectures find use across a diverse range of applications thanks to their performance and efficiency. By combining several general-purpose MCU cores — or MCU cores and ...

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 ...