[pl-seminar] PL-Arch Discussion on Spectre & Meltdown 10am Monday March 11 in 2310 CS

["Mark D. Hill" <markhill@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

AtÂ10am Monday, March 11 in 2310 CS

* Mark Hill will give a short intro to the Spectre/Meltdown problem

* Michael Vaughn will lead a short intro to theÂPLÂpaper on the subject.

Nothing too formal -- a meeting, not a talk.

Before the meeting, at least read the beginning and skim the rest of both:

* On the Spectre and Meltdown Processor Security Vulnerabilities

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/papers/ieeemicro19_spectre_meltdown_2019_01_30.pdfÂ

* Spectre is here to stay An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution

https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05178v1Â

--Mark

Mark D. Hill, http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill

John P. Morgridge Prof. and Gene M. Amdahl Prof. of CSÂ

Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chair, Computing Community Consortium, http://cra.org/ccc/