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ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Mementos: system support for long-running computation on RFID-scale devices
Transiently powered computing devices such as RFID tags, kinetic energy harvesters, and smart cards typically rely on programs that complete a task under tight time constraints be...
Benjamin Ransford, Jacob Sorber, Kevin Fu
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Inter-core prefetching for multicore processors using migrating helper threads
Multicore processors have become ubiquitous in today’s systems, but exploiting the parallelism they offer remains difficult, especially for legacy application and applications ...
Md Kamruzzaman, Steven Swanson, Dean M. Tullsen
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Improving the performance of trace-based systems by false loop filtering
Trace-based compilation is a promising technique for language compilers and binary translators. It offers the potential to expand the compilation scopes that have traditionally be...
Hiroshige Hayashizaki, Peng Wu, Hiroshi Inoue, Mau...
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Hybrid NOrec: a case study in the effectiveness of best effort hardware transactional memory
Transactional memory (TM) is a promising synchronization mechanism for the next generation of multicore processors. Best-effort Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) designs, such a...
Luke Dalessandro, François Carouge, Sean Wh...
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Mnemosyne: lightweight persistent memory
New storage-class memory (SCM) technologies, such as phasechange memory, STT-RAM, and memristors, promise user-level access to non-volatile storage through regular memory instruct...
Haris Volos, Andres Jaan Tack, Michael M. Swift
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Specifying and checking semantic atomicity for multithreaded programs
In practice, it is quite difficult to write correct multithreaded programs due to the potential for unintended and nondeterministic interference between parallel threads. A funda...
Jacob Burnim, George C. Necula, Koushik Sen
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Improving software diagnosability via log enhancement
Diagnosing software failures in the field is notoriously difficult, in part due to the fundamental complexity of trouble-shooting any complex software system, but further exacer...
Ding Yuan, Jing Zheng, Soyeon Park, Yuanyuan Zhou,...
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Ensuring operating system kernel integrity with OSck
Kernel rootkits that modify operating system state to avoid detection are a dangerous threat to system security. This paper presents OSck, a system that discovers kernel rootkits ...
Owen S. Hofmann, Alan M. Dunn, Sangman Kim, Indraj...
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
NV-Heaps: making persistent objects fast and safe with next-generation, non-volatile memories
nt, user-defined objects present an attractive abstraction for working with non-volatile program state. However, the slow speed of persistent storage (i.e., disk) has restricted ...
Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfield, Ameen Akel, Laur...