The latest high-performance IBM PowerPC microprocessor, the POWER5 chip, poses challenges for performance model validation. The current stateof-the-art is to use simple hand-coded...
Robert H. Bell Jr., Rajiv R. Bhatia, Lizy K. John,...
Current simulation-sampling techniques construct accurate model state for each measurement by continuously warming large microarchitectural structures (e.g., caches and the branch...
Thomas F. Wenisch, Roland E. Wunderlich, Babak Fal...
Designing and optimizing high performance microprocessors is an increasingly difficult task due to the size and complexity of the processor design space, high cost of detailed si...
P. J. Joseph, Kapil Vaswani, Matthew J. Thazhuthav...
Computer security is severely threatened by software vulnerabilities. Prior work shows that information flow tracking (also referred to as taint analysis) is a promising techniqu...
Feng Qin, Cheng Wang, Zhenmin Li, Ho-Seop Kim, Yua...
Memory leaks compromise availability and security by crippling performance and crashing programs. Leaks are difficult to diagnose because they have no immediate symptoms. Online ...