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USS
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Adapting Software Fault Isolation to Contemporary CPU Architectures
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...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
Weak execution ordering - exploiting iterative methods on many-core GPUs
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,...
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Dynamic filtering: multi-purpose architecture support for language runtime systems
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...
Tim Harris, Sasa Tomic, Adrián Cristal, Osm...
OSDI
1996
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Dealing with Disaster: Surviving Misbehaved Kernel Extensions
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...
IISWC
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
STAMP: Stanford Transactional Applications for Multi-Processing
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, ...