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Profiling (computer programming)

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To Infinity, and Beyond (Coverage)

The pursuit of software security and reliability hinges on the identification and elimination of software vulnerabilities, a challenge compounded by the vast and evolving complexity of modern systems. Fuzzing has emerged as an indispensable technique for b ...

EPFL2024

Reliable Microsecond-Scale Distributed Computing

Athanasios Xygkis

The landscape of computing is changing, thanks to the advent of modern networking equipment that allows machines to exchange information in as little as one microsecond. Such advancement has enabled microsecond-scale distributed computing, where entire dis ...

EPFL2023

Immediate Tracing

Valentin Aebi

This semester project report describes a prototype tracing tool that records the behavior of a Java program during its execution. It explains the two methods that were attempted to implement the tool, one using the Java debug interface, which gave poor res ...

2023

INCLASS: Incremental Classification Strategy for Self-Aware Epileptic Seizure Detection

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Tomas Teijeiro Campo, Renaud Marquis

Wearable Health Companions allow the unobtrusive monitoring of patients affected by chronic conditions. In particular, by acquiring and interpreting bio-signals, they enable the detection of acute episodes in cardiac and neurological ailments. Nevertheless ...

2022

Performance Estimation of High-Level Dataflow Program on Heterogeneous Platforms by Dynamic Network Execution

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

The performance of programs executed on heterogeneous parallel platforms largely depends on the design choices regarding how to partition the processing on the various different processing units. In other words, it depends on the assumptions and parameters ...

MDPI2022

Containergy-A Container-Based Energy and Performance Profiling Tool for Next Generation Workloads

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Wellington Silva De Souza

Run-time profiling of software applications is key to energy efficiency. Even the most optimized hardware combined to an optimally designed software may become inefficient if operated poorly. Moreover, the diversification of modern computing platforms and ...

2020

RetroWrite: Statically Instrumenting COTS Binaries for Fuzzing and Sanitization

Mathias Josef Payer, Duo Xu

Analyzing the security of closed source binaries is currently impractical for end-users, or even developers who rely on third-party libraries. Such analysis relies on automatic vulnerability discovery techniques, most notably fuzzing with sanitizers enable ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Easy and Accurate Hardware-based Program Performance Monitoring

Andrzej Pawel Nowak

The performance monitoring of computer systems is a complex affair, made even more challenging by the increasing gap between hardware and software. Methods that collect and feed data to performance analysis can usually be classified into one of two groups. ...

EPFL2017

A Methodology for Profiling and Partitioning Stream Programs on Many-core Architectures

Marco Mattavelli, Malgorzata Maria Michalska, Jani Boutellier

Maximizing the data throughput is a very common implementation objective for several streaming applications. Such task is particularly challenging for implementations based on many-core and multi-core target platforms because, in general, it implies tackli ...

2015

Establishing a base of trust with performance counters for enterprise workloads

Willy Zwaenepoel, Andrzej Pawel Nowak

Understanding the performance of large, complex enterprise-class applications is an important, yet nontrivial task. Methods using hardware performance counters, such as profiling through event-based sampling, are often favored over instrumentation for anal ...

2015

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