WormBench: technical report

Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising new technology that makes it possible to ease writing multi-threaded applications. Many different TM implementations exist, unfortunately most of those TM systems are currently evaluated by using workloads that are (1) tightly coupled to the interface of a pa...

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Autores: Zyulkyarov, Ferad Hasanov, Cvijic, Sanja, Unsal, Osman Sabri, Cristal Kestelman, Adrián|||0000-0003-1277-9296, Ayguadé Parra, Eduard|||0000-0002-5146-103X, Harris, Tim, Valero Cortés, Mateo|||0000-0003-2917-2482
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/104850
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Palabra clave:Simultaneous multithreading processors
Parallel programming (Computer science)
Transactional memory
Benchmarck
Parallel application
Programació en paral·lel (Informàtica)
Multiprocessadors
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
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spelling WormBench: technical reportZyulkyarov, Ferad HasanovCvijic, SanjaUnsal, Osman SabriCristal Kestelman, Adrián|||0000-0003-1277-9296Ayguadé Parra, Eduard|||0000-0002-5146-103XHarris, TimValero Cortés, Mateo|||0000-0003-2917-2482Simultaneous multithreading processorsParallel programming (Computer science)Transactional memoryBenchmarckParallel applicationProgramació en paral·lel (Informàtica)MultiprocessadorsÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadorsTransactional Memory (TM) is a promising new technology that makes it possible to ease writing multi-threaded applications. Many different TM implementations exist, unfortunately most of those TM systems are currently evaluated by using workloads that are (1) tightly coupled to the interface of a particular TM implementation, (2) are small and lack to capture the common concurrency problems that exist in real multi-threaded applications and also (3) fail to evaluate the overall behavior of the Transactional Memory system within the context of the computer system from micro-architectural level up to the programming language support. WormBench is parameterized workload designed from the ground up to evaluate Transactional Memory systems in terms of robustness and performance. Its goal is to provide a unified solution to the problems stated above (1, 2, 3). The critical sections in the code are marked with the atomic statements and thus proving a framework to test the compiler or language interpreter ability to translate them properly and efficiently into the appropriate TM system interface. Its design considers all the common synchronization problems that exist in TM multi-threaded applications. The overall behavior of WormBench can be changed by using run configurations which provide the ability to reproduce a runtime behavior observed in a typical multi-threaded application or a behavior that stresses a particular aspect of the TM system such as abort handling. In this paper, we analyze the transactional characteristics of WormBench by studying different run configurations and demonstrate how WormBench can be configured so that it has similar TM behavior with an existing transactional application from the STAMP TM application suite.20082008-08-0120172017-05-25reporthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_93fcVoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/reportapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/104850reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1048502026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv WormBench: technical report
title WormBench: technical report
spellingShingle WormBench: technical report
Zyulkyarov, Ferad Hasanov
Simultaneous multithreading processors
Parallel programming (Computer science)
Transactional memory
Benchmarck
Parallel application
Programació en paral·lel (Informàtica)
Multiprocessadors
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
title_short WormBench: technical report
title_full WormBench: technical report
title_fullStr WormBench: technical report
title_full_unstemmed WormBench: technical report
title_sort WormBench: technical report
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Zyulkyarov, Ferad Hasanov
Cvijic, Sanja
Unsal, Osman Sabri
Cristal Kestelman, Adrián|||0000-0003-1277-9296
Ayguadé Parra, Eduard|||0000-0002-5146-103X
Harris, Tim
Valero Cortés, Mateo|||0000-0003-2917-2482
author Zyulkyarov, Ferad Hasanov
author_facet Zyulkyarov, Ferad Hasanov
Cvijic, Sanja
Unsal, Osman Sabri
Cristal Kestelman, Adrián|||0000-0003-1277-9296
Ayguadé Parra, Eduard|||0000-0002-5146-103X
Harris, Tim
Valero Cortés, Mateo|||0000-0003-2917-2482
author_role author
author2 Cvijic, Sanja
Unsal, Osman Sabri
Cristal Kestelman, Adrián|||0000-0003-1277-9296
Ayguadé Parra, Eduard|||0000-0002-5146-103X
Harris, Tim
Valero Cortés, Mateo|||0000-0003-2917-2482
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author
author
author
author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Simultaneous multithreading processors
Parallel programming (Computer science)
Transactional memory
Benchmarck
Parallel application
Programació en paral·lel (Informàtica)
Multiprocessadors
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
topic Simultaneous multithreading processors
Parallel programming (Computer science)
Transactional memory
Benchmarck
Parallel application
Programació en paral·lel (Informàtica)
Multiprocessadors
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors
description Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising new technology that makes it possible to ease writing multi-threaded applications. Many different TM implementations exist, unfortunately most of those TM systems are currently evaluated by using workloads that are (1) tightly coupled to the interface of a particular TM implementation, (2) are small and lack to capture the common concurrency problems that exist in real multi-threaded applications and also (3) fail to evaluate the overall behavior of the Transactional Memory system within the context of the computer system from micro-architectural level up to the programming language support. WormBench is parameterized workload designed from the ground up to evaluate Transactional Memory systems in terms of robustness and performance. Its goal is to provide a unified solution to the problems stated above (1, 2, 3). The critical sections in the code are marked with the atomic statements and thus proving a framework to test the compiler or language interpreter ability to translate them properly and efficiently into the appropriate TM system interface. Its design considers all the common synchronization problems that exist in TM multi-threaded applications. The overall behavior of WormBench can be changed by using run configurations which provide the ability to reproduce a runtime behavior observed in a typical multi-threaded application or a behavior that stresses a particular aspect of the TM system such as abort handling. In this paper, we analyze the transactional characteristics of WormBench by studying different run configurations and demonstrate how WormBench can be configured so that it has similar TM behavior with an existing transactional application from the STAMP TM application suite.
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