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 +====== Hardware Transactional Memory in the Wild ======
 +==== Konrad Lai (Intel) ====
 +== Friday, Oct. 3rd, 2:​00PM-3:​00PM ==
 +== CIC Panther Hollow ==
  
 +===== Abstract =====
 +Intel has recently introduced Intel Transactional Synchronization
 +Extensions (Intel TSX) in the Intel 4th Generation Core Processors.
 +With Intel TSX, a processor can dynamically determine whether threads
 +need to serialize through lock-protected critical sections. We
 +evaluate the first hardware implementation of Intel TSX using a set of
 +high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, and demonstrate that
 +applying Intel TSX to these workloads can provide significant
 +performance improvements. On a set of real-world HPC workloads,
 +applying Intel TSX provides an average speedup of 1.41. When applied
 +to a parallel user-level TCP/IP stack, Intel TSX provides 1.31 average
 +bandwidth improvement on network intensive applications. We also
 +demonstrate the ease with which we were able to apply Intel TSX to the
 +various workloads.
 +
 +===== Bio =====
 +Konrad Lai received the BSE from Princeton University and MSCE from
 +Carnegie Mellon University. He is has recently retired as a Senior
 +Principal Research Scientist in the Microprocessor Technology
 +Laboratories,​ Intel Corporation. He was with Intel for over 30 years,
 +working on object oriented architecture,​ microprocessor,​
 +multiprocessor system, memory technology, and system architecture.
 +
 +His current research interests include advanced microarchitecture,​
 +FPGA prototype, and hardware/​software support for multi/​many-core
 +architecture.