In this paper, we present an early performance evaluation of a 624-core cluster based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5560 (code named “Nehalem-EP”, and referred to as Xeon 55...
Kernel-level attacks or rootkits can compromise the security of an operating system by executing with the privilege of the kernel. Current approaches use virtualization to gain hi...
Monirul I. Sharif, Wenke Lee, Weidong Cui, Andrea ...
Instruction fetch behavior has been shown to be very regular and predictable, even for diverse application areas. In this work, we propose the Lookahead Instruction Fetch Engine (...
Stephen Roderick Hines, Yuval Peress, Peter Gavin,...
This paper explores the feasibility of a cost-efficient storage architecture that offers the reliability and access performance characteristics of a high-end system. This architec...
—Today, middleboxes such as firewalls and network address translators have advanced beyond simple packet forwarding and address mapping. They also inspect and filter traffic, ...