Colin Blundell

Colin Blundell
		Architecture & Compilers Group (ACG) Department of Computer & Information Science University of Pennsylvania Email: `blundell[at]cis.upenn.edu` Advisor: Milo Martin

Selected recent publications (all publications)

: InvisiFence: Performance-Transparent Memory Ordering in Conventional Multiprocessors.
Colin Blundell, Milo Martin, and Thomas Wenisch.
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '09), June 2009.
: Software Transactional Memory: Why Is It Only a Research Toy?
Calin Cascaval, Colin Blundell, Maged Michael, Harold W. Cain, Peng Wu, Stefanie Chiras, and Siddhartha Chatterjee.
Communications of the ACM (CACM '08), Volume 51, Issue 11, November 2008.
: Token Tenure: PATCHing Token Counting Using Directory-Based Cache Coherence.
Arun Raghavan, Colin Blundell, and Milo Martin.
International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO '08), November 2008.
: Making the Fast Case Common and the Uncommon Case Simple in Unbounded Transactional Memory.
Colin Blundell, Joe Devietti, E Christopher Lewis, and Milo Martin.
International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA '07), June 2007.
: Subtleties of Transactional Memory Atomicity Semantics.
Colin Blundell, E Christopher Lewis, and Milo Martin.
Computer Architecture Letters (CAL '06), Volume 5, Number 2, November 2006.

Transactional Memory Challenges: Workloads, Execution Model, and Implementation.
Given at IBM Workshop on Transactional Memory and Programming Technologies (TRAMP) 2007.

A Transactional Memory Overview.
Given at WDDD 2005.