Instruction-grain lifeguards monitor the events of a running application at the level of individual instructions in order to identify and help mitigate application bugs and securi...
Evangelos Vlachos, Michelle L. Goodstein, Michael ...
Aggressive technology scaling provides designers with an ever increasing budget of cheaper and faster transistors. Unfortunately, this trend is accompanied by a decline in individ...
Shuguang Feng, Shantanu Gupta, Amin Ansari, Scott ...
To make efficient use of CMPs with tens to hundreds of cores, it is often necessary to exploit fine-grain parallelism. However, managing tasks of a few thousand instructions is ...
Daniel Sanchez, Richard M. Yoo, Christos Kozyrakis
Taint analysis, a form of information-flow analysis, establishes whether values from untrusted methods and parameters may flow into security-sensitive operations. Taint analysis...
Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Manu S...
Transactional memory (TM) is an appealing abstraction for programming multi-core systems. Potential target applications for TM, such as business software and video games, are like...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Rachid Guerraoui, Michal Ka...