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TxLinux and MetaTM: transactional memory and the operating system

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 51 , Issue 9 (September 2008) table of contents
Enterprise information integration: and other tools for merging data

SECTION: Research highlights table of contents

Pages 83-91

Year of Publication: 2008

ISSN:0001-0782

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Christopher J. Rossbach	University of Texas, Austin
Hany E. Ramadan	University of Texas, Austin
Owen S. Hofmann	University of Texas, Austin
Donald E. Porter	University of Texas, Austin
Aditya Bhandari	University of Texas, Austin
Emmett Witchel	University of Texas, Austin

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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