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HPC-based applications often have complex workflows with many software dependencies that hinder their portability on contemporary HPC architectures. In addition, these applications often require extraordinary efforts to deploy and execute…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Sameh Abdulah , Jorge Ejarque , Omar Marzouk , Hatem Ltaief , Ying Sun , Marc G. Genton , Rosa M. Badia , David E. Keyes

This study investigates the potential of WebAssembly as a more secure and efficient alternative to Linux containers for executing untrusted code in cloud computing with Kubernetes. Specifically, it evaluates the security and performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Jasper Alexander Wiegratz

High Performance Computing~(HPC) software stacks have become complex, with the dependencies of some applications numbering in the hundreds. Packaging, distributing, and administering software stacks of that scale is a complex undertaking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Farid Zakaria , Thomas R. W. Scogland , Todd Gamblin , Carlos Maltzahn

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format designed as a portable compilation target, which has been widely used on both the web and server sides in recent years. As high performance is a critical design goal of Wasm, it is essential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shuyao Jiang , Ruiying Zeng , Yangfan Zhou , Michael R. Lyu

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a low-level binary format for web applications, which has found widespread adoption due to its improved performance and compatibility with existing software. However, the popularity of Wasm has also led to its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Nils Loose , Felix Mächtle , Claudius Pott , Volodymyr Bezsmertnyi , Thomas Eisenbarth

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a next-generation portable compilation target for deploying applications written in high-level languages on the web. In order to protect their memory from untrusted code, web browser engines confine the execution of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Marco Vassena , Marco Patrignani

WebAssembly is revolutionizing the approach to developing modern applications. Although this technology was born to create portable and performant modules in web browsers, currently, its capabilities are extensively exploited in multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Gaetano Perrone , Simon Pietro Romano

WebAssembly (Wasm for short) brings a new, powerful capability to the web as well as Edge, IoT, and embedded systems. Wasm is a portable, compact binary code format with high performance and robust sandboxing properties. As Wasm…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Doehyun Baek , Jakob Getz , Yusung Sim , Daniel Lehmann , Ben L. Titzer , Sukyoung Ryu , Michael Pradel

Binary rewriting is a widely adopted technique in software analysis. WebAssembly (Wasm), as an emerging bytecode format, has attracted great attention from our community. Unfortunately, there is no general-purpose binary rewriting framework…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Shangtong Cao , Ningyu He , Yao Guo , Haoyu Wang

All major web browsers now support WebAssembly, a low-level bytecode intended to serve as a compilation target for code written in languages like C and C++. A key goal of WebAssembly is performance parity with native code; previous work…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Abhinav Jangda , Bobby Powers , Emery Berger , Arjun Guha

Software based fault isolation (SFI) is a powerful approach to reduce the impact of security vulnerabilities in large C/C++ applications like Firefox and Apache. Unfortunately, practical SFI tools have not been broadly available. Developing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Shravan Narayan , Tal Garfinkel , Sorin Lerner , Hovav Shacham , Deian Stefan

WebAssembly (Wasm) has emerged as a powerful technology for executing high-performance code and reusing legacy code in web browsers. With its increasing adoption, ensuring the reliability of WebAssembly code becomes paramount. In this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sara Baradaran , Liyan Huang , Mukund Raghothaman , Weihang Wang

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a binary instruction format that enables portable, sandboxed, and near-native execution across heterogeneous platforms, making it well-suited for serverless workflow execution on browsers, edge nodes, and cloud…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Mario Colosi , Reza Farahani , Lauri Loven , Radu Prodan , Massimo Villari

WebAssembly (Wasm) has become a key compilation target for portable and efficient execution across diverse platforms. Benchmarking its performance, however, is a multi-dimensional challenge: it depends not only on the choice of runtime…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Riccardo Carissimi , Ben L. Titzer

WebAssembly (Wasm) is a low-level bytecode format that can run in modern browsers. With the development of standalone runtimes and the improvement of the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI), Wasm has further provided a more complete…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Chenxi Mao , Yuxin Su , Shiwen Shan , Dan Li

Data streams are a sequence of data flowing between source and destination processes. Streaming is widely used for signal, image and video processing for its efficiency in pipelining and effectiveness in reducing demand for memory. The goal…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Ivy Bo Peng , Stefano Markidis , Roberto Gioiosa , Gokcen Kestor , Erwin Laure

MPI is the most widely used interface for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. Its success lies in its embrace of libraries and ability to evolve while maintaining backward compatibility for older codes, enabling them to run on new…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Jeff R. Hammond , Lisandro Dalcin , Erik Schnetter , Marc Pérache , Jean-Baptiste Besnard , Jed Brown , Gonzalo Brito Gadeschi , Joseph Schuchart , Simon Byrne , Hui Zhou

WebAssembly (Wasm) has risen as a widely used technology to distribute computing workloads on different platforms. The platform independence offered through Wasm makes it an attractive solution for many different applications that can run…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Markus Berthilsson , Christian Gehrmann

WebAssembly is designed to be an alternative to JavaScript that is a safe, portable, and efficient compilation target for a variety of languages. The performance of high-level languages depends not only on the underlying performance of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Donald Pinckney , Arjun Guha , Yuriy Brun

Running scientific workflows on a supercomputer can be a daunting task for a scientific domain specialist. Workflow management solutions (WMS) are a standard method for reducing the complexity of application deployment on high performance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Wouter Klijn , Sandra Diaz-Pier , Abigail Morrison , Alexander Peyser