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Alex Garthwaite is a researcher for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the CoRC project exploration.

His research interests include all aspects of implementing virtual machines.

Education:

* MS Computer and Information Science 1995, University of Pennsylvania * MPhil Logic and metaphysics 1988, University of St. Andrews * AB Philosophy 1986, Princeton University

Technical Reports

  • Supporting Per-processor Local-allocation Buffers Using Multi-processor Restartable Critical Sections
    By: Derek White, David Dice and Alex Garthwaite
    Report Number: TR-2004-126
    Mar 1, 2004
  • Efficient Meta-lock for Implementing Ubiquitous Synchronization, An
    By: Y.S. Ramakrishna, Alex Garthwaite, Ross Knippel, David Detlefs, Derek White and Ole Agesen
    Report Number: TR-99-76
    Apr 1, 1999
  • GC Interface in the EVM1, The
    By: Alex Garthwaite and Derek White
    Report Number: TR-98-67
    Dec 1, 1998

    Latest Sun Patents

  • Binned remembered sets
    (Mar 15, 2005)
  • Methods and apparatus for performing a memory management technique
    (Mar 1, 2005)
  • Dynamic adaptive tenuring of objects
    (Jan 4, 2005)
  • Lock-free implementation of concurrent shared object with dynamic node allocation and distinguishing pointer value
    (Nov 30, 2004)
  • Local allocation buffers for parallel garbage collection
    (Nov 30, 2004)
    See all 16 patents »

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