Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2006. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-30). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-124).

Many different methodologies have been developed for analyzing multithreaded programs. These analyses present a wide variety of approaches and tend to be rather complicated because they work on applications formed by several threads executed in a nondeterministic order. / To address these issues this thesis introduces XThread, a flexible and modular framework for developing different concurrency analyses over multithreaded applications. The main objective of XTHREAD is to reduce the complexity of developing concurrency analyses by providing high level abstractions that close the breach between the language spoken by the researcher and the language the framework provides. Moreover, this framework provides different tools that are often required for solving issues common to many concurrency analyses. XTHREAD's modular organization also delivers a flexible environment for developing and testing different analysis implementations. / In order to demonstrate the usefulness of the framework a client analysis representing known but non-trivial multithreaded analysis is developed which is composed of several other concurrency analysis. A substantial number of benchmarks are used in order to test the implementations, showing that complex programs are accepted and correctly handled by the abstractions provided by the framework. Using the XTHREAD framework we demonstrate implementations that have both comparable accuracy and much better generality than is typically found in existing, research-level implementations of concurrency analyses.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Guang R. Gao, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Includes bibliographical references.

High bandwidth of networks demands high performance communication processors that integrate application processing, network processing, and system support functions into a single, low cost System-On-Chip (SOC) solution. However, conventional processors, when used in network related applications, are beset by the overhead of save/restore of register context, cache misses due to fetching interrupt handler from memory, and the possibility of NIC buffer overflow. Therefore, this paper analyzes the effectiveness of multithreading to service interrupts on an embedded processor from the perspective of a Network processor and a Communication processor. A Simulation environment enhanced with a multithreaded hardware execution model is used and our results reveal that multithreading for interrupts from a single NIC brings a fair improvement in performance of Network processors and little or no effect on Communication processors. However, our analysis also show that multithreading for interrupts has a lot of potential when applied to communication processors with multiple interrupt sources, such as Ethernet, ATM, USB, and HDLC. Index terms: Multithreading, UDP, IP, device driver, interrupt processing, communication processor. / Graduation date: 2003

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Dallas, 2007. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-103)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at El Paso, 2009. / Title from title screen. Vita. CD-ROM. Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

This thesis discusses techniques for improving the fault tolerance of multithreaded applications. We consider the impact on fault tolerance methods of sharing address space and resources. We develop techniques in two broad categories: conservative multithreaded fault-tolerance (C-MTFT), which recovers an entire application on the failure of a single thread, and optimistic multithreaded fault-tolerance (OMTFT), which recovers threads independently as necessary. In the latter category, we provide a novel approach to recover hung threads while improving recovery time by managing access to shared resources so that hung threads can be restarted while other threads continue execution. / text

Thesis (M.E.E.)--University of Delaware, 2007. / Principal faculty advisor: Guang R. Gao, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Includes bibliographical references.