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.

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The former lords of multiprocessing in the supercomputing realm have a term for problems that are easily decomposed for distribution to multiple processors. They call such problems “embarrassingly ...

Concurrency adds complexity for which the industry lacks appropriate tools, and the problem has grown to the point where errors can creep into designs with no easy or consistent way to detect them. In ...