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Type of Talk: UTCS Colloquium/Architecture

Speaker Name/Affili

ation: Maurice Herlihy/Brown University

Date/Time: October 8 2007
3:30p.m.
Coffee at 3:00 p.m.

Location:
ACES 2.402

Host: Emmett Witchel

Talk Title: Transactional

Boosting: A Methodology for Highly-Concurrent Transactional Objects

Talk Abstract:
We describe a methodology for transforming a large class

of
highly-concurrent linearizable objects into highly-concurrent
tr

ansactional objects. As long as the linearizable implementation
satisfi

es certain regularity properties (informally that every method
has an

inverse) we define a simple wrapper for the linearizable implementation th

at guarantees that concurrent transactions without
inherent conflicts c

an synchronize at the same granularity as the
original linearizable imp

lementation.

Speaker Bio:
Maurice Herlihy received an A.B. degree
in Mathematics from Harvard University and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Scie

nce from MIT. He has
been an Assistant Professor in the Computer Scienc

e Department at
Carnegie Mellon University a member of the research st

aff at Digital Equipment Corporation''s Cambridge (MA) Research Lab and a

consultant for Sun Microsystems. He is now a Professor of Computer
Science at Brown University.

Prof. Herlihy''s research centers on p

ractical and theoretical aspects of multiprocessor synchronization with a

focus on wait-free and lock-free synchronization. His 1991 paper Wait-Free

Synchronization won the
2003 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing a

nd he shared the 2004
Goedel Prize for his 1999 paper The Topological S

tructure of Asynchronous Computation. He is a Fellow of the ACM.

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