{"id":183038,"date":"2007-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T10:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/msr-research-item\/multiprocessor-architectures-for-programmability\/"},"modified":"2016-09-09T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:48:19","slug":"multiprocessor-architectures-for-programmability","status":"publish","type":"msr-video","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/video\/multiprocessor-architectures-for-programmability\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiprocessor Architectures for Programmability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"asset-content\">\n<p>While multiprocessor hardware is finally becoming ubiquitous, enticing most programmers to write parallel programs is going to be very challenging. For this reason, I believe that the main problem that confronts computer architects today is designing computer systems that help simplify parallel programming.<\/p>\n<p>In this talk I will present two novel, powerful computer architecture primitives that help simplify parallel programming. The first one is Bulk \u2014 a hardware framework for performing sets of memory operations in bulk. Bulk is used as a building block to support interactions between multiple threads, enabling high-programmability environments such as high-performance sequential memory consistency, thread-level speculation, and transactional memory. The second technique is Colorama \u2014 hardware support for Data-Centric Synchronization. Colorama associates concurrency control constraints with data, providing an attractive alternative to the traditional code-centric approach of locks and transactions.  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