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ICFP
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Nested data-parallelism on the gpu
Graphics processing units (GPUs) provide both memory bandwidth and arithmetic performance far greater than that available on CPUs but, because of their Single-Instruction-Multiple...
Lars Bergstrom, John H. Reppy
ICFP
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Introspective pushdown analysis of higher-order programs
In the static analysis of functional programs, pushdown flow analabstract garbage collection skirt just inside the boundaries of soundness and decidability. Alone, each method re...
Christopher Earl, Ilya Sergey, Matthew Might, Davi...
ISSTA
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Swarm testing
Swarm testing is a novel and inexpensive way to improve the diversity of test cases generated during random testing. Increased diversity leads to improved coverage and fault detec...
Alex Groce, Chaoqiang Zhang, Eric Eide, Yang Chen,...
PLDI
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Adaptive input-aware compilation for graphics engines
While graphics processing units (GPUs) provide low-cost and efficient platforms for accelerating high performance computations, the tedious process of performance tuning required...
Mehrzad Samadi, Amir Hormati, Mojtaba Mehrara, Jan...
PLDI
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Scalable and precise dynamic datarace detection for structured parallelism
Existing dynamic race detectors suffer from at least one of the following three limitations: (i) space overhead per memory location grows linearly with the number of parallel thre...
Raghavan Raman, Jisheng Zhao, Vivek Sarkar, Martin...
PLDI
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Test-case reduction for C compiler bugs
To report a compiler bug, one must often find a small test case that triggers the bug. The existing approach to automated test-case reduction, delta debugging, works by removing ...
John Regehr, Yang Chen, Pascal Cuoq, Eric Eide, Ch...
PLDI
2012
ACM
11 years 6 months ago
Diderot: a parallel DSL for image analysis and visualization
Research scientists and medical professionals use imaging technology, such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to measure a wide variety of biological...
Charisee Chiw, Gordon Kindlmann, John Reppy, Lamon...
VEE
2012
ACM
238views Virtualization» more  VEE 2012»
11 years 12 months ago
Replacement attacks against VM-protected applications
Process-level virtualization is increasingly being used to enhance the security of software applications from reverse engineering and unauthorized modification (called software p...
Sudeep Ghosh, Jason Hiser, Jack W. Davidson
VEE
2012
ACM
222views Virtualization» more  VEE 2012»
11 years 12 months ago
Unpicking the knot: teasing apart VM/application interdependencies
Flexible and efficient runtime design requires an understanding of the dependencies among the components internal to the runtime and those between the application and the runtime...
Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel Frampton
VEE
2012
ACM
226views Virtualization» more  VEE 2012»
11 years 12 months ago
Protecting applications against TOCTTOU races by user-space caching of file metadata
Time Of Check To Time Of Use (TOCTTOU) race conditions for file accesses in user-space applications are a common problem in Unix-like systems. The mapping between filename and i...
Mathias Payer, Thomas R. Gross