Karen L. Karavanic
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View article: MemFriend: Understanding Memory Performance with Spatial-Temporal Affinity
MemFriend: Understanding Memory Performance with Spatial-Temporal Affinity Open
In HPC applications, memory access behavior is one of the main factors affecting performance. Improving an application’s memory access behavior requires studying spatial-temporal data locality. Ex- isting data locality analyses focus on si…
View article: Message from the 2021 Program Chair
Message from the 2021 Program Chair Open
Pandemic notwithstanding, we are delighted to present a strong technical program.We received a total of 558 preliminary abstracts and 462 complete technical paper submissions this year.All submissions went through a thorough review process…
View article: Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to System Management Interrupt Handlers with the Intel SMI Transfer Monitor
Applying the Principle of Least Privilege to System Management Interrupt Handlers with the Intel SMI Transfer Monitor Open
Recent years have seen a growing concern over System Management Mode (SMM) and its broad access to platform resources. The SMI Transfer Monitor (STM) is Intel’s most powerful executing CPU context. The STM is a firmware-based hypervisor th…
View article: EPA-RIMM: A Framework for Dynamic SMM-based Runtime Integrity Measurement
EPA-RIMM: A Framework for Dynamic SMM-based Runtime Integrity Measurement Open
Runtime integrity measurements identify unexpected changes in operating systems and hypervisors during operation, enabling early detection of persistent threats. System Management Mode, a privileged x86 CPU mode, has the potential to effec…