Title :
Ensuring deterministic concurrency through compilation
Author :
Vasudevan, Nalini ; Edwards, Stephen A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Columbia Univ., New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
Multicore shared-memory architectures are becoming prevalent but bring many programming challenges. Among the biggest is non-determinism: the output of the program does not depend merely on the input, but also on scheduling choices taken by the operating system. In this paper, we discuss and propose additional tools that provide determinism guarantees-compilers that generate deterministic code, libraries that provide deterministic constructs, and analyzers that check for determinism. Additionally, we discuss techniques to check for problems like deadlock that can result from the use of these deterministic constructs.
Keywords :
concurrency control; operating systems (computers); program compilers; program diagnostics; programming; scheduling; shared memory systems; software libraries; analyzers; compilers; deadlock problem; deterministic code generation; deterministic concurrency; deterministic constructs; library; multicore shared-memory architectures; operating system; programming challenges; scheduling choices; Computer architecture; Computer languages; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Health information management; Helium; Libraries; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; System recovery; Concurrency; Deadlocks; Determinism; SHIM;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel & Distributed Processing, Workshops and Phd Forum (IPDPSW), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6533-0
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPSW.2010.5470803