Although molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of biomolecular systems often run for days to
months, many events of great scientific interest and pharmaceutical relevance occur on long …

Many modern computer systems, including homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures,
support shared memory in hardware. In a shared memory system, each of the processor …

Recent research has uncovered a broad class of security vulnerabilities in which
confidential data is leaked through programmer-observable microarchitectural state. In this …

The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification
techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerabilities. We have developed a tool for …

This paper presents the first formal analysis of the official memory consistency model for the
NVIDIA PTX virtual ISA. Like other GPU memory models, the PTX memory model is weakly …

In recent years, there has been a notable surge in attention towards hardware security,
driven by the increasing complexity and integration of processors, SoCs, and third-party IPs …

RISC-V is a novel open instruction set architecture that supports multiple platforms while
maintaining simplicity and reliability. Despite its novelty, the software support for RISC-V has …

Modern Systems-on-Chip (SoC) designs are increasingly heterogeneous and contain
specialized semi-programmable accelerators in addition to programmable processors. In …

Stateless Model Checking (SMC) is an effective technique for verifying safety properties of a
concurrent program by systematically exploring all of its executions. While SMC has been …

Modern hardware complexity makes it challenging to determine if a given microarchitecture
adheres to a particular memory consistency model (MCM). This observation inspired the …