Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
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Protection from hardware attacks such as snoopers and mod chips has been receiving increasing attention in computer architecture. This paper presents a new combined memory encrypt...
Chenyu Yan, Daniel Englender, Milos Prvulovic, Bri...
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Danny Dolev, Osnat Mokryn, Yuval Shavitt, Innocent...
Java-based middleware is a rapidly growing workload for high-end server processors, particularly Chip Multiprocessors (CMP). To help architects design future microprocessors to ru...
Martin Karlsson, Erik Hagersten, Kevin E. Moore, D...