Kernel rootkits have posed serious security threats due to their stealthy manner. To hide their presence and activities, many rootkits hijack control flows by modifying control d...
History indicates that the security community commonly takes a divide-and-conquer approach to battling malware threats: identify the essential and inalienable components of an att...
Joshua Mason, Sam Small, Fabian Monrose, Greg MacM...
“Is transactional memory useful?” is the question that cannot be answered until we provide substantial applications that can evaluate its capabilities. While existing TM appli...
Vladimir Gajinov, Ferad Zyulkyarov, Osman S. Unsal...
Since the advent of electronic computing, the processors’ clock speed has risen tremendously. Now that energy efficiency requirements have stopped that trend, the number of proc...
In many scientific applications, significant time is spent tuning codes for a particular highperformance architecture. Tuning approaches range from the relatively nonintrusive (...
Albert Hartono, Boyana Norris, Ponnuswamy Sadayapp...