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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2015.29

ActiveMonitor: Asynchronous Monitor Framework for Scalability and Multi-Object Synchronization

Authors: Wei-Lun Hung, Himanshu Chauhan, and Vijay K. Garg

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 46, 19th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2015)

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Monitor objects are used extensively for thread-safety and synchronization in shared memory parallel programs. They provide ease of use, and enable straightforward correctness analysis. However, they inhibit parallelism by enforcing serial executions of critical sections, and thus the performance of parallel programs with monitors scales poorly with number of processes. Their current design and implementation is also ill-suited for thread synchronization across multiple thread-safe objects. We present ActiveMonitor - a framework that allows multi-object synchronization without global locks, and improves parallelism by exploiting asynchronous execution of critical sections. We evaluate the performance of Java based implementation of ActiveMonitor on micro-benchmarks involving light and heavy critical sections, as well as on single-source-shortest-path problem in directed graphs. Our results show that on most of these problems, ActiveMonitor based programs outperform programs implemented using Java's reentrant-lock and condition constructs.

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Wei-Lun Hung, Himanshu Chauhan, and Vijay K. Garg. ActiveMonitor: Asynchronous Monitor Framework for Scalability and Multi-Object Synchronization. In 19th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 46, pp. 29:1-29:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{hung_et_al:LIPIcs.OPODIS.2015.29,
  author =	{Hung, Wei-Lun and Chauhan, Himanshu and Garg, Vijay K.},
  title =	{{ActiveMonitor: Asynchronous Monitor Framework for Scalability and Multi-Object Synchronization}},
  booktitle =	{19th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2015)},
  pages =	{29:1--29:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-98-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{46},
  editor =	{Anceaume, Emmanuelle and Cachin, Christian and Potop-Butucaru, Maria},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2015.29},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-66188},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2015.29},
  annote =	{Keywords: concurrent/parallel programming, monitors, concurrency}
}

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