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CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
When good instructions go bad: generalizing return-oriented programming to RISC
This paper reconsiders the threat posed by Shacham's "return-oriented programming" -- a technique by which WX-style hardware protections are evaded via carefully cr...
Erik Buchanan, Ryan Roemer, Hovav Shacham, Stefan ...
SIGMETRICS
2003
ACM
129views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 2003»
14 years 25 days ago
Run-time modeling and estimation of operating system power consumption
The increasing constraints on power consumption in many computing systems point to the need for power modeling and estimation for all components of a system. The Operating System ...
Tao Li, Lizy Kurian John
CC
2005
Springer
124views System Software» more  CC 2005»
14 years 1 months ago
Boosting the Performance of Multimedia Applications Using SIMD Instructions
Modern processors’ multimedia extensions (MME) provide SIMD ISAs to boost the performance of typical operations in multimedia applications. However, automatic vectorization suppo...
Weihua Jiang, Chao Mei, Bo Huang, Jianhui Li, Jiah...
AML
2000
82views more  AML 2000»
13 years 7 months ago
Mixed logic and storage operators
In 1990 J-L. Krivine introduced the notion of storage operators. They are -terms which simulate call-by-value in the call-by-name strategy and they can be used in order to modeliz...
Karim Nour
PPOPP
1990
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Employing Register Channels for the Exploitation of Instruction Level Parallelism
Abstract - A multiprocessor system capable of exploiting fine-grained parallelism must support efficient synchronization and data passing mechanisms. This paper demonstrates the us...
Rajiv Gupta