Software or hardware data cache prefetching is an efficient way to hide cache miss latency. However effectiveness of the issued prefetches have to be monitored in order to maximi...
Rootkits are used by malicious attackers who desire to run software on a compromised machine without being detected. They have become stealthier over the years as a consequence of...
Francis M. David, Ellick Chan, Jeffrey C. Carlyle,...
Feedback-directed optimization (FDO) is effective in improving application runtime performance, but has not been widely adopted due to the tedious dual-compilation model, the dif...
Dehao Chen, Neil Vachharajani, Robert Hundt, Shih-...
Debugging the performance of parallel and distributed systems remains a difficult task despite the widespread use of middleware packages for automatic distribution, communication...
A strong level of trust in the software running on an embedded processor is a prerequisite for its widespread deployment in any high-risk system. The expanding field of software p...
Joseph Zambreno, Alok N. Choudhary, Rahul Simha, B...