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Brief Announcement: Persistent Software Combining

Authors Panagiota Fatourou, Nikolaos D. Kallimanis, Eleftherios Kosmas

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  • Theory of computation → Concurrent algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Data structures design and analysis
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  • Persistent objects
  • recoverable algorithms
  • durability
  • synchronization protocols
  • software combining
  • universal constructions
  • wait-freedom
  • stacks
  • queues

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Abstract

We study the performance power of software combining in designing recoverable algorithms and data structures. We present two recoverable synchronization protocols, one blocking and another wait-free, which illustrate how to use software combining to achieve both low persistence and synchronization cost. Our experiments show that these protocols outperform by far state-of-the-art recoverable universal constructions and transactional memory systems. We built recoverable queues and stacks, based on these protocols, that exhibit much better performance than previous such implementations.

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Panagiota Fatourou, Nikolaos D. Kallimanis, and Eleftherios Kosmas. Brief Announcement: Persistent Software Combining. In 35th International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 209, pp. 56:1-56:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.DISC.2021.56

Author Details

Panagiota Fatourou
  • Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece
  • University of Crete, Department of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece
Nikolaos D. Kallimanis
  • Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece
Eleftherios Kosmas
  • University of Crete, Department of Computer Science, Heraklion, Greece

Funding

Panagiota Fatourou: Supported by the EU Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie project with GA No 101031688. Eleftherios Kosmas: Co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund- ESF) through the Operational Programme «Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning» in the context of the project “Reinforcement of Postdoctoral Researchers - 2nd Cycle” (MIS-5033021), implemented by the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY).

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