Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are commonly integrated with computing devices to
enhance the performance and capabilities of graphical workloads. In addition, they are …

Machine learning has been attracting strong interests in recent years. Numerous companies
have invested great efforts and resources to develop customized deep-learning models …

Dark silicon is pushing processor vendors to add more specialized units such as
accelerators to commodity processor chips. Unfortunately this is done without enough care …

With the increasing proliferation of hardware accelerators and the predicted continued
increase in the heterogeneity of future computing systems, it is necessary to understand the …

Video-analytics-as-a-service is becoming an important offering for cloud providers. A key
concern in such services is privacy of the videos being analyzed. While trusted execution …

Spectre attacks and their many subsequent variants are a new vulnerability class affecting
modern CPUs. The attacks rely on the ability to misguide speculative execution, generally by …

ABSTRACT A covert network channel is a communication channel in which the message is
secretly transmitted to the recipient. Sometimes, covert network channels are vulnerable to …

Recent studies have revealed much detailed information about the translation lookaside
buffers (TLBs) of modern CPUs, but we find that many properties of such components in …

This paper presents the first comprehensive analysis of contention-based security
vulnerabilities in a high-performance simultaneous mulithreaded (SMT) processor. It …

As the popularity of graphics processing units (GPUs) grows rapidly in recent years, it
becomes very critical to study and understand the security implications imposed by them. In …