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    BilKristal 4.0: A tool for crystal parameters extraction and defect quantification
    (Elsevier, 2015) Okuyan, E.; Okuyan, C.
    In this paper, we present a revised version of BilKristal 3.0 tool. Raycast screenshot functionality is added to provide improved visual analysis. We added atomic distance analysis functionality to assess crystalline defects. We improved visualization capabilities by adding high level cut function definitions. Discovered bugs are fixed and small performance optimizations are made. © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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    A comparison of logical and physical parallel I/O patterns
    (SAGE Publications Inc., 1998) Simitci, H.; Reed, D. A.
    Although there are several extant studies of parallel scientific application request patterns, there is little experimental data on the correlation of physical I/O patterns with application I/O stimuli. To understand these correlations, the authors have instrumented the SCSI device drivers of the Intel Paragon OSF/1 operating system to record key physical I/O activities, and have correlated this data with the I/O patterns of scientific applications captured via the Pablo analysis toolkit. This analysis shows that disk hardware features profoundly affect the distribution of request delays and that current parallel file systems respond to parallel application I/O patterns in nonscalable ways.
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    G-free: Defeating return-oriented programming through gadget-less binaries
    (ACM, 2010-12) Onarlıoğlu, Kaan; Bilge, L.; Lanzi, A.; Balzarotti, D.; Kirda, E.
    Despite the numerous prevention and protection mechanisms that have been introduced into modern operating systems, the exploitation of memory corruption vulnerabilities still represents a serious threat to the security of software systems and networks. A recent exploitation technique, called Return-Oriented Programming (ROP), has lately attracted a considerable attention from academia. Past research on the topic has mostly focused on refining the original attack technique, or on proposing partial solutions that target only particular variants of the attack. In this paper, we present G-Free, a compiler-based approach that represents the first practical solution against any possible form of ROP. Our solution is able to eliminate all unaligned free-branch instructions inside a binary executable, and to protect the aligned free-branch instructions to prevent them from being misused by an attacker. We developed a prototype based on our approach, and evaluated it by compiling GNU libc and a number of real-world applications. The results of the experiments show that our solution is able to prevent any form of return-oriented programming. © 2010 ACM.
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    Multicore education through simulation
    (IEEE, 2009-07) Öztürk, Özcan
    This paper presents the experiences using a commercial full system simulation platform - Simics - in a graduate Chip Multiprocessors class. The Simics platform enables students and researchers to do research on computer architecture, operating systems, and hardware/software cosimulation. It provides the ability to simulate machines that are not physically available. This platform has been used in Chip Multiprocessors course to help graduate and undergraduate students in related areas. This course deals with both hardware and software issues in Chip Multiprocessors, and concludes with a team project at the end of the semester. The simulation-based approach was successful when student feedback and final projects are considered. ©2009 IEE.