Hardware-accelerated platforms and infrastructures for network functions: A survey of enabling technologies and research studies

P Shantharama, AS Thyagaturu, M Reisslein - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to facilitate flexible network service virtualization and migration, network functions
(NFs) are increasingly executed by software modules as so-called “softwarized NFs” on …

A modern primer on processing in memory

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - … computing: from devices …, 2022 - Springer
Modern computing systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This
design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in computing that cause …

Ambit: In-memory accelerator for bulk bitwise operations using commodity DRAM technology

V Seshadri, D Lee, T Mullins, H Hassan… - Proceedings of the 50th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Many important applications trigger bulk bitwise operations, ie, bitwise operations on large
bit vectors. In fact, recent works design techniques that exploit fast bulk bitwise operations to …

TRRespass: Exploiting the many sides of target row refresh

P Frigo, E Vannacc, H Hassan… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After a plethora of high-profile RowHammer attacks, CPU and DRAM vendors scrambled to
deliver what was meant to be the definitive hardware solution against the RowHammer …

Processing data where it makes sense: Enabling in-memory computation

O Mutlu, S Ghose, J Gómez-Luna… - Microprocessors and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Today's systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This design
choice goes directly against at least three key trends in systems that cause performance …

Rowhammer: A retrospective

O Mutlu, JS Kim - … Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This retrospective paper describes the RowHammer problem in dynamic random access
memory (DRAM), which was initially introduced by Kim et al. at the ISCA 2014 Conference …

Revisiting rowhammer: An experimental analysis of modern dram devices and mitigation techniques

JS Kim, M Patel, AG Yağlıkçı, H Hassan… - 2020 ACM/IEEE 47th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
RowHammer is a circuit-level DRAM vulnerability, first rigorously analyzed and introduced in
2014, where repeatedly accessing data in a DRAM row can cause bit flips in nearby rows …

Uncovering in-dram rowhammer protection mechanisms: A new methodology, custom rowhammer patterns, and implications

H Hassan, YC Tugrul, JS Kim, V Van der Veen… - MICRO-54: 54th Annual …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The RowHammer vulnerability in DRAM is a critical threat to system security. To protect
against RowHammer, vendors commit to security-through-obscurity: modern DRAM chips …

Blockhammer: Preventing rowhammer at low cost by blacklisting rapidly-accessed dram rows

AG Yağlikçi, M Patel, JS Kim, R Azizi… - … Symposium on High …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aggressive memory density scaling causes modern DRAM devices to suffer from
RowHammer, a phenomenon where rapidly activating (ie, hammering) a DRAM row can …

DAMOV: A new methodology and benchmark suite for evaluating data movement bottlenecks

GF Oliveira, J Gómez-Luna, L Orosa, S Ghose… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data movement between the CPU and main memory is a first-order obstacle against improv
ing performance, scalability, and energy efficiency in modern systems. Computer systems …