To all involved, I propose next paper for this Monday paper reading group Transactional Lock-Free Execution of Lock-Based Programs Ravi Rajwar and James R. Goodman Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706 USA {rajwar, goodman}@cs.wisc.edu http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~amza/ece1747h/papers/asplos02.pdf The another two articles which seems to cover interresting research in the area of the transactional memory are. Sequential Specification of Transactional Memory Semantics ∗ Michael L. Scott Department of Computer Science University of Rochester scott@cs.rochester.edu http://192.5.53.208/u/scott/papers/2006_TRANSACT_formal_STM.pdf Lowering the Overhead of Nonblocking Software Transactional Memory∗ Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Christopher Heriot, Athul Acharya, David Eisenstat, William N. Scherer III, and Michael L. Scott Technical Report #893 Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester March 2006 ftp://anon.cs.rochester.edu/pub/papers/systems/06.tr893.Lowering_overhead_of_nonblckg_software_transactional_memory.pdf Best wishes, Pavel Pisa