一个基于图着色的CACHE优化方法

提出了一个编译时的Cache管理优化方法。该方法根据访存行为将程序中的数据划分成若干数据对象,根据数据对象的大小将Cache划分为一个带有别名的伪寄存器文件,每个伪寄存器由若干Cache行组成,可以容纳一个数据对象;使用一个经过改进的图着色寄存器分配算法来决定这些对象在Cache中的位置以及发生冲突时的替换关系。数据对象的划分将Cache的管理分为两个层次,一个是编译时编译器对粗粒度的数据对象的管理,另一个是运行时硬件对细粒度的Cache行的管理,这样编译器和硬件的优势都得到发挥。基于GCC进行了方法实现,并通过simplescalar构造了支持Cache Coloring的硬件模拟平台。实验结果表明Cache Coloring能较好地开发程序的局部性,降低Cache失效率。     

YHFT-DX高性能DSP中Cache失效流水设计

YHFT-DX是国防科技大学自主研制的一款高性能DSP.以提升YHFI-DX的 Cache 性能为目标,研究了降低 Cache 失效延迟的优化策略,设计并实现了一种针对高频高性能DSP的一级数据Cache优化策略--失效流水.与传统优化策略相比,该策略将连续访问Cache的失效请求并进行流水化处理,使多个Cache失效延迟重叠,从而达到降低平均Cache失效代价的目的.将该策略应用到YHFT-DX芯片的一级数据Cache控制器的设计与优化中,使访问Cache失效引起的流水线停顿从8拍降为2拍,显著提升了系统性能.     

面向访问模式的多核末级Cache优化方法

多核处理器架构已经成为当前处理器的主流趋势,应用程序中访问模式的多样性给多核处理器的末级Cache带来了许多挑战。提出了访问模式的多核末级Cache优化方法,它包含"可配置的共享私有Cache划分"、"可配置的旁路Cache策略"和"优先权替换策略"三个协同递进的层次。通过使用该方法,程序员能够灵活地改变末级Cache执行行为,从而高效地适应应用程序访问模式的变化。实验结果表明,提出的方法能够显著降低末级Cache的缺失率,进而提高系统的整体性能。     

顺序PROLOG机存储组织研究

YH-SIM是一种正在研制中的顺序PROLOG机。本文介绍该机存储组织的设计考虑。根据PROLOG过程执行的具体特点,文中提出了一种多专用Cache的存储子系统结构,旨在支持深度优先加回溯的顺序PROLOG求解机制。即按照不同的访问方式,设立常规Cache和栈式Cache,分别支持存储空间中的随机访问区域和栈式访问区域。作为一个典型的子部分,文中详细讨论了选择点Cache的控制和调度策略。     

基于访问模式的多核末级Cache优化方法*

多核处理器架构已经成为当前处理器的主流趋势,应用程序中访问模式的多样性给多核处理器的末级Cache带来了许多挑战。提出了一种基于访问模式的多核末级Cache优化方法,它包含“可配置的共享私有Cache划分”、“可配置的旁路Cache策略”和“优先权替换策略”三个协同递进的层次。通过使用该方法,程序员能够灵活地改变末级Cache执行行为,从而高效地适应应用程序访问模式的变化。实验结果表明,提出的方法能够显著降低末级Cache的缺失率,进而提高系统的整体性能。     

Cache计时攻击对E1Gamal签名的安全威胁分析

分析了E1Gamal签名中模幂运算的平方乘算法和滑动窗口算法,给出了两种算法下利用Cache计时采集旁路信息的方法和幂指数恢复算法,分析了Cache计时攻击对幂指数相关的旁路信息获取能力以及Cache计时攻击对E1Gamal签名的安全性威胁．通过仿真验证了Cache计时攻击能够有效获取旁路信息,展示了不同长度随机密钥的安全等级,给出了建议采用的随机密钥长度与可能的防御措施．     

位置信息与替换概率相结合的多核共享Cache管理机制

多核系统中末级Cache是影响整体性能的关键。为了提出一种细粒度、低延迟、低代价的末级共享Cache资源管理机制,将系统性能目标转换为每个内核当前占用Cache资源的替换概率,以决定每个内核能够提供的被替换资源的数量;对某个需要增加Cache资源的内核,从可提供被替换资源的候选内核中选出距离较近且替换概率较高的一个内核,并以Cache块为粒度进行替换,从而实现Cache资源在不同内核间的动态划分。与传统以相联度为粒度的粗粒度替换机制相比,以Cache块为单位的替换机制具有更细的替换粒度,灵活性更高。另外,通过将位置信息和替换概率结合,保证了Cache资源与相应内核在物理布局上的收敛,降低了访问延迟。同时,所提出的方法只需要增加极少的硬件代价。实验结果表明,根据实验场景和对比对象的不同,所提方法与其他已有研究成果相比,可以实现从6.8%到22.7%的性能提升。     

一种基于Cache的AES计时模板攻击方法

采用面向字节、分而治之的攻击思想,将AES主密钥按字节划分为若干子密钥块,为每个子密钥块的所有候选值搭建Cache计时信息模板,并采集未知密钥AES算法的Cache计时信息,使Pearson相关性算法与模板匹配,成功地恢复AES-128位密钥。实验结果表明：AES查找表和Cache结构缺陷决定了AES易遭受Cache计时模板攻击,而模板分析理论在时序驱动攻击分析中是可行的。     

针对DSA滑动窗口算法实现的指令Cache计时攻击

在现有的针对RSA等公钥密码的指令Cache计时攻击的研究基础上,提出了一套可行的针对DSA的指令Cache计时攻击方法,并对计时信息采集、识别、密钥恢复等环节进行了研究,给出了一种随机密钥恢复算法。搭建了攻击实验平台,利用编写的间谍程序对滑动窗口算法实现的DSA签名进行了实际攻击,验证了指令Cache计时攻击方法是可行、有效的．     

基于伪临界值的Cache一致性协议验证方法

针对Cache一致性协议状态空间爆炸问题,提出共享集合伪临界值(Pseudo-cutoff)的概念,并以采用释放一致性模型的CC-NUMA系统为例,分析了共享数据的分布情况,推导出在一定条件下共享集合伪临界值为4的结论,有效优化了目录Cache协议状态空间,并提出了解决小概率的宽共享事件的方法.实验数据表明,基于伪临界值的协议模型优化,能够有效缩小Cache协议状态空间,加快验证速度,扩大验证规模.     

An Unlikely Alliance: Portuguese and South African Airpower in Angola, 1968–1974

The war that Portugal was obliged to fight in Africa began in 1961 and immediately stretched the resources of its armed forces. Nowhere was this thinness more apparent than in policing the vast territory of Angola. The east and southeast of Angola were particularly vulnerable, as the area was a vast, sparsely populated region characterised by enormous featureless plains or chanas covered in tall grass and broken by an extensive river system and mountainous forests. The only military solution to policing these immense spaces was aviation and specifically the helicopter that could carry troops into battle, protect them with a gunship and bring them home when the operation was concluded. The immediate problem for the Portuguese Air Force (Força Aérea Portuguesa or FAP) in Angola and elsewhere was a scarcity of helicopters. The solution was an alliance with South Africa, which had a strong inventory of Alouette IIIs, to help in policing the east. This move was likewise in the interest of South Africa, as its threat came from Zambia through south-eastern Angola. This article examines the strategic and tactical development of this unusual, cross-cultural alliance and the symbiotic relationship that resulted in destruction of the enemies of both in Angola.     

国内外结构钢焊条研究的现状与发展

本文主要介绍了国外焊条的现状和发展趋势,包括焊条的高韧性、高效率、低尘低毒和耐吸潮性能,为国内的焊条研究提供了参考依据。     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

A Sign of Victory?: ‘Scottish Swords’ and Other Weapons in the Possession of the ‘Auld Innemie’

Many late medieval documents, notably inventories of arms and armour, of Englishmen contain references to ‘Scottish swords’ and other weapons. What did the compilers of these documents mean when they described a weapon as ‘Scottish’? How did such weapons come to be in the possession of these men? This article will attempt to explain this phenomenon drawing on primary documentary sources and surviving material culture from Glasgow Museums’ collections and others, as well as artworks from the period.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Cyberpower in Strategic Affairs: Neither Unthinkable nor Blessed

Abstract

This article explores the effect of connectivity on strategic affairs. It argues that the effect on war's character is potentially, although not yet shown in practice, considerably large. Its effect upon the distribution of power among states in the international system is small, contrary to the claims of ‘cyberwar’ alarmists. All told, however, its effect upon strategic affairs is complex. On the one hand, it represents a significant advance in the ‘complexification’ of state strategies, understood in the sense of the production of intended effects. On the other hand, strategists today – still predominantly concerned with the conflicts and confrontations of states and organised military power – are generally missing the power which non-traditional strategic actors, better adapted to the network flows of the information age, are beginning to deploy. These new forms of organization and coercion will challenge the status quo.