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P. 82

technical
Perspective
transactional
memory in the
operating system
By Mark Moir

P. 83

TxLinux and MetaTM:
Transactional Memory and
the Operating System
By Christopher J. Rossbach, hany E. Ramadan, owen S. hofmann,
Donald E. Porter, Aditya Bhandari, and Emmett Witchel
P. 92
technical
Perspective
Distributing
Your Data and
having it, too
By hagit Attiya

P. 93

Distributed Selection:
A Missing Piece
of Data Aggregation

By Fabian Kuhn, Thomas Locher, and Roger Wattenhofer