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Technical Perspective: Transactional Memory in the Operating System

By Mark Moir
Communications of the ACM, September 2008, Vol. 51 No. 9, Page 82
10.1145/1378727.1378746
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The long tradition of building ever-faster processors is ending, with the computer industry instead putting more processing "cores" on each processor chip. Therefore, to continue to benefit from advances in technology, applications must increasingly be able to perform useful work on multiple cores at the same time.

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