We currently participate in the VELOX European Project that aims at providing an integrated Approach to Transactional Memory on Multi- and Many-core Computers. The general objective of Velox is to build an integrated hardware/software TM stack (i) to develop new and convert existing applications into real-world TM-based applications that scale easily with the number of cores, (ii) to optimize software and hardware TM-mechanisms using real-world workloads, and (iii) to address unexpected but potential show stoppers for TM deployment.