Memory Courses

USENIX

ctFS - Replacing File Indexing with Hardware Memory Translation through Contiguous File Allocation for Persistent Memory

Innovative file system design leveraging hardware memory translation for persistent memory, enhancing performance by eliminating indexing overhead and improving efficiency in file operations.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

HTMFS - Strong Consistency Comes for Free with Hardware Transactional Memory in Persistent Memory File Systems

Explore hardware-software cooperation for high-performance, strongly consistent persistent memory file systems using Hardware Transactional Memory, overcoming traditional trade-offs between speed and data integrity.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Unioning of the Buffer Cache and Journaling Layers with Non-volatile Memory

Innovative buffer cache architecture using non-volatile memory to improve file system performance by unifying caching and journaling, resulting in significant I/O performance gains without compromising reliability.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Controlling Memory Footprint of Stateful Streaming Graph Processing

Innovative techniques for reducing memory usage in streaming graph processing systems, enabling analysis of larger dynamic graphs while maintaining performance and accuracy.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Avocado - A Secure In-Memory Distributed Storage System

Explore Avocado, a secure in-memory distributed storage system for untrusted cloud environments, offering strong security, fault-tolerance, consistency, and performance through innovative design and implementation.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Beyond Malloc Efficiency to Fleet Efficiency - A Hugepage-Aware Memory Allocator

Explore TEMERAIRE, a hugepage-aware memory allocator enhancing TCMALLOC to reduce CPU overheads, improve application performance, and optimize fleet efficiency in warehouse-scale computing.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Scalable Memory Protection in the PENGLAI Enclave

Innovative hardware-software design for scalable, dynamic secure memory in enclaves, featuring Guarded Page Tables and Mountable Merkle Trees to enhance protection, performance, and resource utilization.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

MAGE - Nearly Zero-Cost Virtual Memory for Secure Computation

MAGE: An execution engine for secure computation, enabling efficient processing of large-scale encrypted data by leveraging oblivious memory access patterns to optimize virtual memory management.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Improving Performance of Flash Based Key-Value Stores Using Storage Class Memory as a Volatile Memory Extension

Explore using Storage Class Memory to enhance flash-based key-value stores' performance in data centers, focusing on RocksDB improvements and cost-effectiveness for large-scale applications.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Exploring the Design Space of Page Management for Multi-Tiered Memory Systems

Explores page management strategies for multi-tiered memory systems, analyzing access locality and tier importance to optimize performance in DRAM and SCM configurations.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

USENIX

ArchTM - Architecture-Aware, High Performance Transaction for Persistent Memory

Innovative architecture-aware transaction system for persistent memory, enhancing performance through strategic write management and memory allocation techniques.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

New Memory Forensics Techniques to Defeat Device Monitoring Malware

Discover new Volatility plugins for detecting device monitoring malware across major OS. Learn about advanced memory forensics techniques to combat sophisticated threats.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

BadAlloc - Broken Memory Allocators Led to Millions of Vulnerable IoT and Embedded Devices

Explore critical integer-overflow vulnerabilities in memory allocators affecting millions of IoT and embedded devices, their impact, and implications for cybersecurity across various operating systems and SDKs.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

Mem2Img - Memory-Resident Malware Detection via Convolution Neural Network

Innovative framework using convolutional neural networks to detect memory-resident malware, overcoming limitations of traditional antivirus software and handcrafted feature-based approaches.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Black Hat

Black-Box Laser Fault Injection on a Secure Memory

Explore vulnerability research on the Microchip ATECC508A secure memory, examining laser fault injection techniques to bypass cryptographic authentication in IoT devices.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk