Immortal Threads

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Immortal Threads is a novel programming model that brings pseudo-stackful multithreaded processing to intermittent computing. Programmers using Immortal Threads are oblivious to intermittent execution and write their applications in a multithreaded fashion using common event-driven multithreading primitives. Our compiler fronted transforms the stackful threads into stackless threads that waste a minimum amount of computational progress upon power failures. Our runtime implements fair scheduling to switch between threads efficiently.

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How to Cite This Work

The results of this project have been published in a peer-reviewed academic publication (from which all technical figures in this file originate). Details of the publication are as follows.

• Authors and the project team: Eren Yildiz, Lijun Chen, Kasim Sinan Yildirim
• Publication title: Immortal Threads: Multithreaded Event-driven Intermittent Computing on Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers
• Pulication venue: 16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 22)
• Link to publication:

To cite this publication please use the following BiBTeX entry.

@inproceedings{yildiz:osdi:2022:immortal,
  title = {Immortal Threads: Multithreaded Event-driven Intermittent Computing on Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers},
  author={Yildiz, Eren and Chen, Lijun and Yildirim, Kasim Sinan},
  booktitle={16th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 22)},
  year={2022}
}