Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

Now-a-days, distributed databases have taken concentration in the database research. Data distribution and replication offer opportunities for improving performance through parallel query execution ...

The lesson learned from the Pathfinder incident is therefore timeless: concurrency is not a free performance booster but a ...

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Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) is a widely employed concurrency control mechanism, as it allows for execution modes where readers never block writers. However, most systems implement only ...

In this video from 2018 Swiss HPC Conference, Torsten Hoefler from (ETH) Zürich presents: Demystifying Parallel and Distributed Deep Learning: An In-Depth Concurrency Analysis. “Deep Neural Networks ...