Mittal et al., 2018 - Google Patents
A survey of techniques for improving security of gpusMittal et al., 2018
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- Mittal S
- Abhinaya S
- Reddy M
- Ali I
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- Journal of Hardware and Systems Security
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Graphics processing unit (GPU), although a powerful performance-booster, also has many security vulnerabilities. Due to these, the GPU can act as a safe-haven for stealthy malware and the weakest “link” in the security “chain”. In this paper, we present a survey of …
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