William N. Scherer

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

William N. Scherer is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, William N. Scherer has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 16 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in William N. Scherer's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (16 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (16 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (9 papers). William N. Scherer is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (16 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (16 papers) and Advanced Data Storage Technologies (9 papers). William N. Scherer collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. William N. Scherer's co-authors include Michael L. Scott, Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, Virendra J. Marathe, Jun Shirako, Vivek Sarkar, Michael Spear, Doug Lea and John Mellor‐Crummey and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM SIGPLAN Notices and Parallel Processing Letters.

In The Last Decade

William N. Scherer

22 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Software transactional memory for dynamic-sized data structures

2003 627 citations Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco et al. profile →

Peers

William N. Scherer

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Dan Touitou Israel

Michael Spear United States

JaeWoong Chung United States

Brian D. Carlstrom United States

Chi Cao Minh United States

Bratin Saha United States

Colin Blundell United States

Jared Casper United States

Manohar K. Prabhu United States

Arrvindh Shriraman Canada

Dan Touitou Israel

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871 ×0.9

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259 ×0.6

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184 ×1.4

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65 ×1.1

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Jin, Guohua, et al.. (2011). Implementation and Performance Evaluation of the HPC Challenge Benchmarks in Coarray Fortran 2.0. 22. 1089–1100. 15 indexed citations

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Scherer, William N., et al.. (2010). Hiding latency in Coarray Fortran 2.0. 1–9. 4 indexed citations

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Shirako, Jun, et al.. (2009). Phaser accumulators: A new reduction construct for dynamic parallelism. 1–12. 20 indexed citations

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Mellor‐Crummey, John, Laksono Adhianto, William N. Scherer, & Guohua Jin. (2009). A new vision for coarray Fortran. 1–9. 42 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rui, Zoran Budimlić, & William N. Scherer. (2008). Commit phase in timestamp-based stm. 326–335. 11 indexed citations

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Shirako, Jun, et al.. (2008). Phasers. 277–288. 75 indexed citations

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Scherer, William N., et al.. (2008). Commit Phase Variations in Timestamp-based Software Transactional Memory. 1 indexed citations

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Mellor‐Crummey, John, Laksono Adhianto, & William N. Scherer. (2008). A Critique of Co-array Features in Fortran 2008 Working Draft J3/07-007r3. 1 indexed citations

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Bai, Tongxin, et al.. (2007). A Key-based Adaptive Transactional Memory Executor. 29. 1–8. 16 indexed citations

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Heller, Steve, Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, et al.. (2007). A Lazy Concurrent List-Based Set Algorithm. Parallel Processing Letters. 17(4). 411–424. 15 indexed citations

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Scott, Michael L. & William N. Scherer. (2006). Synchronization and concurrency in user-level software systems. 7 indexed citations

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Marathe, Virendra J., et al.. (2006). Lowering the Overhead of Nonblocking Software Transactional Memory. UR Research (University of Rochester). 98 indexed citations

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Scherer, William N. & Michael L. Scott. (2005). Advanced contention management for dynamic software transactional memory. 240–248. 254 indexed citations

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Heller, Steve, Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, et al.. (2005). A Lazy Concurrent List-Based Set Algorithm. 2 indexed citations

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Shriraman, Arrvindh, Virendra J. Marathe, Sandhya Dwarkadas, et al.. (2005). Hardware Acceleration of Software Transactional Memory. 36 indexed citations

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Scherer, William N., Doug Lea, & Michael L. Scott. (2005). A Scalable Elimination-based Exchange Channel. UR Research (University of Rochester). 15 indexed citations

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Marathe, Virendra J., William N. Scherer, & Michael L. Scott. (2004). Design tradeoffs in modern software transactional memory systems. 1–7. 52 indexed citations

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Herlihy, Maurice, Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, & William N. Scherer. (2003). Software transactional memory for dynamic-sized data structures. 92–101. 627 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scott, Michael L. & William N. Scherer. (2001). Scalable queue-based spin locks with timeout. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 36(7). 44–52. 5 indexed citations

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Scott, Michael L. & William N. Scherer. (2001). Scalable queue-based spin locks with timeout. 44–52. 60 indexed citations

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