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ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Path-exploration lifting: hi-fi tests for lo-fi emulators
Processor emulators are widely used to provide isolation and instrumentation of binary software. However they have proved difficult to implement correctly: processor specificati...
Lorenzo Martignoni, Stephen McCamant, Pongsin Poos...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
DreamWeaver: architectural support for deep sleep
Numerous data center services exhibit low average utilization leading to poor energy efficiency. Although CPU voltage and frequency scaling historically has been an effective mea...
David Meisner, Thomas F. Wenisch
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Comprehensive kernel instrumentation via dynamic binary translation
Dynamic binary translation (DBT) is a powerful technique that enables fine-grained monitoring and manipulation of an existing program binary. At the user level, it has been emplo...
Peter Feiner, Angela Demke Brown, Ashvin Goel
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Architectural support for hypervisor-secure virtualization
Virtualization has become a standard part of many computer systems. A key part of virtualization is the all-powerful hypervisor which manages the physical platform and can access ...
Jakub Szefer, Ruby B. Lee
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Chameleon: operating system support for dynamic processors
The rise of multi-core processors has shifted performance efforts towards parallel programs. However, single-threaded code, whether from legacy programs or ones difficult to para...
Sankaralingam Panneerselvam, Michael M. Swift
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
DejaVu: accelerating resource allocation in virtualized environments
Effective resource management of virtualized environments is a challenging task. State-of-the-art management systems either rely on analytical models or evaluate resource allocati...
Nedeljko Vasic, Dejan M. Novakovic, Svetozar Miuci...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Scalable address spaces using RCU balanced trees
Software developers commonly exploit multicore processors by building multithreaded software in which all threads of an application share a single address space. This shared addre...
Austin T. Clements, M. Frans Kaashoek, Nickolai Ze...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Applying transactional memory to concurrency bugs
Multithreaded programs often suffer from synchronization bugs such as atomicity violations and deadlocks. These bugs arise from complicated locking strategies and ad hoc synchroni...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Michael M. Swift, S...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
Providing safe, user space access to fast, solid state disks
Emerging fast, non-volatile memories (e.g., phase change memories, spin-torque MRAMs, and the memristor) reduce storage access latencies by an order of magnitude compared to state...
Adrian M. Caulfield, Todor I. Mollov, Louis Alex E...
ASPLOS
2012
ACM
14 years 12 days ago
A case for unlimited watchpoints
Numerous tools have been proposed to help developers fix software errors and inefficiencies. Widely-used techniques such as memory checking suffer from overheads that limit thei...
Joseph L. Greathouse, Hongyi Xin, Yixin Luo, Todd ...