This is not from IBM or about mainframes. But I think it will be of interest to the readers here. It is from Sun about "Transactional Memory" and how that it can be used to more easily implement threadsafeness and multiprocessors.
<quote> Transactional memory appears to be the key to unlocking the full potential of next-generation chip multiprocessing (CMP) technologies and accelerating both their performance and their adoption. It could also be a core enabling technology for the massively powerful terascale and petascale computing systems now on the drawing boards of advanced research labs and government agencies. Why? Because transactional memory can solve a very serious problem in software engineering-a problem that is severely constraining application performance and draining countless productive hours from skilled programmers. </quote> http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2007/2007-08-13_transactional_memory.h tml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
