Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
Software flaws in native methods may defeat Java’s guarantees of safety and security. One common kind of flaws in native methods results from the discrepancy on how exceptions...
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...
Cloud computing systems fundamentally provide access to large pools of data and computational resources through a variety of interfaces similar in spirit to existing grid and HPC ...
Daniel Nurmi, Richard Wolski, Chris Grzegorczyk, G...
—The scalability and performance of the Internet depends critically on the performance of its packet switches. Current packet switches are based on single-hop crossbar fabrics, w...