John Demme

TL;DR: The authors deployed the reconfigurable fabric in a bed of 1,632 servers and FPGAs in a production datacenter and successfully used it to accelerate the ranking portion of the Bing Web search engine by nearly a factor of two.

TL;DR: The requirements and architecture of the fabric are described, the critical engineering challenges and solutions needed to make the system robust in the presence of failures are detailed, and the performance, power, and resilience of the system when ranking candidate documents are measured.

TL;DR: This paper examines the feasibility of building a malware detector in hardware using existing performance counters and finds that data from performance counters can be used to identify malware and that the detection techniques are robust to minor variations in malware programs.

TL;DR: The approach is to limit the fidelity of fine grain timekeeping and performance counters, making it difficult for an attacker to distinguish between different microarchitectural events, thus thwarting attacks.

TL;DR: SVF quantifies patterns in attackers' observations and measures their correlation to the victim's actual execution patterns and in doing so captures systems' vulnerability to side-channel attacks, providing a quantitative approach to secure computer architecture.