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+====== Concurrent Applications using Elastic Transactions ======
+**Master project**
+In an attempt to make the programming abstraction as general as possible, Software Transactional Memory (STM) often hampers performance. In contrast with STMs, synchronization techniques at the core of a concurrent program that targets a single specific application can be genuinely tuned to enhance concurrency and to
+limit contention.
+Elastic transactions is a variant of the transactional model.
+Upon conflict detection, an elastic transaction might drop what it did so far within
+a separate transaction that immediately commits, and initiate a new transaction which might
+itself be elastic. Elastic transactions are a complementary alternative to traditional
+transactions, particularly appealing when implementing search structures. Both forms of transactions can
+safely be combined within the same application.
+The goal of the project is to implement a real concurrent application using [[http://lpd.epfl.ch/gramoli/php/estm.php|E-STM]], an STM implementing elastic and regular transactions, to enhance concurrency. The task is
+  * to propose some applications,
+  * to implement some of them using the transaction API,
+  * to extend [[http://lpd.epfl.ch/gramoli/php/estm.php|E-STM]] with nesting of elastic transactions inside normal ones, and
+  * to experiment them on a multicore machine.
+**Language:** C
+**Responsible:** [[http://lpd.epfl.ch/gramoli|Vincent Gramoli]]
+**Project intended for 1 student**