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As process technology scales down to smaller dimensions, DRAM chips become more vulnerable to disturbance, a phenomenon in which different DRAM cells interfere with each other's operation. For the first time in academic literature, our ISCA…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Yoongu Kim , Ross Daly , Jeremie Kim , Chris Fallin , Ji Hye Lee , Donghyuk Lee , Chris Wilkerson , Konrad Lai , Onur Mutlu

Modern architecture research relies on simulators to evaluate system security, yet analyzing emerging hardware vulnerabilities like RowHammer requires full-system visibility. As RowHammer vulnerabilities worsen with continuous technology…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaustav Goswami , Ayaz Akram , Hari Venugopalan , Jason Lowe-Power

Large scale graph optimization problems arise in many fields. This paper presents an extensible, high performance framework (named OpenGraphGym-MG) that uses deep reinforcement learning and graph embedding to solve large graph optimization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Weijian Zheng , Dali Wang , Fengguang Song

Rowhammer is a hardware security vulnerability at the heart of every system with modern DRAM-based memory. Despite its discovery a decade ago, comprehensive defenses remain elusive, while the probability of successful attacks grows with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Anish Saxena , Walter Wang , Alexandros Daglis

Many emerging cyber-physical systems, such as autonomous vehicles and robots, rely heavily on artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to perform important system operations. Since these highly parallel applications are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 An Zou , Jing Li , Christopher D. Gill , Xuan Zhang

The RRAM-based neuromorphic computing system has amassed explosive interests for its superior data processing capability and energy efficiency than traditional architectures, and thus being widely used in many data-centric applications. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Hao Lv , Bing Li , Lei Zhang , Cheng Liu , Ying Wang

Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) is pervasive in computer systems. Cell vulnerabilities caused by unintended phenomena (forced retention failure, latency alteration, rowhammer and rowpress) lead to unintended bit flips in memory. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zilong Hu , Hongming Fei , Prosanta Gope , Jack Miskelly , Owen Millwood , Biplab Sikdar

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 problem: Target Row Refresh (TRR). A common belief among practitioners…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Pietro Frigo , Emanuele Vannacci , Hasan Hassan , Victor van der Veen , Onur Mutlu , Cristiano Giuffrida , Herbert Bos , Kaveh Razavi

Microarchitectural attacks on CPU structures have been studied in native applications, as well as in web browsers. These attacks continue to be a substantial threat to computing systems at all scales. With the proliferation of heterogeneous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Ethan Ferguson , Adam Wilson , Hoda Naghibijouybari

Since its inception, Rowhammer exploits have rapidly evolved into increasingly sophisticated threats compromising data integrity and the control flow integrity of victim processes. Nevertheless, it remains a challenge for an attacker to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Andrew Adiletta , M. Caner Tol , Kemal Derya , Berk Sunar , Saad Islam

Rowhammer attacks that corrupt level-1 page tables to gain kernel privilege are the most detrimental to system security and hard to mitigate. However, recently proposed software-only mitigations are not effective against such kernel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhi Zhang , Yueqiang Cheng , Minghua Wang , Wei He , Wenhao Wang , Nepal Surya , Yansong Gao , Kang Li , Zhe Wang , Chenggang Wu

Memory isolation is critical for system reliability, security, and safety. Unfortunately, read disturbance can break memory isolation in modern DRAM chips. For example, RowHammer is a well-studied read-disturb phenomenon where repeatedly…

Large industrial systems that combine services and applications, have become targets for cyber criminals and are challenging from the security, monitoring and auditing perspectives. Security log analysis is a key step for uncovering…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-10 Xavier Bellekens , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson , Craig Renfrew , Tony Kirkham

This paper investigates secure low-cost in-DRAM trackers for mitigating Rowhammer (RH). In-DRAM solutions have the advantage that they can solve the RH problem within the DRAM chip, without relying on other parts of the system. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Moinuddin Qureshi , Salman Qazi , Aamer Jaleel

Modern DRAM is vulnerable to read disturbance (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress) that significantly undermines the robust operation of the system. Repeatedly opening and closing a DRAM row (RowHammer) or keeping a DRAM row open for a long…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Haocong Luo , İsmail Emir Yüksel , Ataberk Olgun , A. Giray Yağlıkçı , Onur Mutlu

To understand and improve DRAM performance, reliability, security and energy efficiency, prior works study characteristics of commodity DRAM chips. Unfortunately, state-of-the-art open source infrastructures capable of conducting such…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ataberk Olgun , Hasan Hassan , A. Giray Yağlıkçı , Yahya Can Tuğrul , Lois Orosa , Haocong Luo , Minesh Patel , Oğuz Ergin , Onur Mutlu

This paper presents GRAPHR, the first ReRAM-based graph processing accelerator. GRAPHR follows the principle of near-data processing and explores the opportunity of performing massive parallel analog operations with low hardware and energy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Linghao Song , Youwei Zhuo , Xuehai Qian , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Modern systems mitigate Rowhammer using victim refresh, which refreshes the two neighbours of an aggressor row when it encounters a specified number of activations. Unfortunately, complex attack patterns like Half-Double break…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Anish Saxena , Saurav Mathur , Moinuddin Qureshi

The Rowhammer vulnerability continues to get worse, with the Rowhammer Threshold (TRH) reducing from 139K activations to 4.8K activations over the last decade. Typical Rowhammer mitigations rely on tracking aggressor rows. The number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Anish Saxena , Moinuddin Qureshi

Visual object tracking is a crucial research topic in the fields of computer vision and multi-modal fusion. Among various approaches, robust visual tracking that combines RGB frames with Event streams has attracted increasing attention from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Qiang Chen , Xiao Wang , Haowen Wang , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Dawei Zhang , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang