Software Fault Isolation (SFI) is an effective approach to sandboxing binary code of questionable provenance, an interesting use case for native plugins in a Web browser. We prese...
David Sehr, Robert Muth, Cliff Biffle, Victor Khim...
Abstract--On NVIDIA's many-core GPUs, there is no synchronization function among parallel thread blocks. When finegranularity of data communication and synchronization is requ...
Jianmin Chen, Zhuo Huang, Feiqi Su, Jih-Kwon Peir,...
This paper introduces a new abstraction to accelerate the readbarriers and write-barriers used by language runtime systems. We exploit the fact that, dynamically, many barrier exe...
Today's extensible operating systems allow applications to modify kernel behavior by providing mechanisms for application code to run in the kernel address space. The advanta...
Margo I. Seltzer, Yasuhiro Endo, Christopher Small...
Abstract—Transactional Memory (TM) is emerging as a promising technology to simplify parallel programming. While several TM systems have been proposed in the research literature,...
Chi Cao Minh, JaeWoong Chung, Christos Kozyrakis, ...