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ICCS
2009
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Generating Empirically Optimized Composed Matrix Kernels from MATLAB Prototypes
The development of optimized codes is time-consuming and requires extensive architecture, compiler, and language expertise, therefore, computational scientists are often forced to ...
Boyana Norris, Albert Hartono, Elizabeth R. Jessup...
IEEEARES
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Defeating Dynamic Data Kernel Rootkit Attacks via VMM-Based Guest-Transparent Monitoring
—Targeting the operating system kernel, the core of trust in a system, kernel rootkits are able to compromise the entire system, placing it under malicious control, while eluding...
Junghwan Rhee, Ryan Riley, Dongyan Xu, Xuxian Jian...
USS
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Hypervisor Support for Identifying Covertly Executing Binaries
Hypervisors have been proposed as a security tool to defend against malware that subverts the OS kernel. However, hypervisors must deal with the semantic gap between the low-level...
Lionel Litty, H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, Davi...
LCTRTS
2011
Springer
12 years 10 months ago
An approach to improving the structure of error-handling code in the linux kernel
nguage does not provide any abstractions for exception handling or other forms of error handling, leaving programmers to devise their own conventions for detecting and handling er...
Suman Saha, Julia L. Lawall, Gilles Muller
SOSP
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Improving the reliability of commodity operating systems
Despite decades of research in extensible operating system technology, extensions such as device drivers remain a significant cause of system failures. In Windows XP, for example,...
Michael M. Swift, Brian N. Bershad, Henry M. Levy