Takanori Matsuzaki

Fuce: the continuation-based multithreading processor

Current trends of research on multithreading processors are the chip multithreading (CMT), which aims to exploit thread level parallelism (TLP) and to improve performance of software built onalltraditional threading components, e.g. pthreads. However, CMT is principally a straight forward extension of conventionalall symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) techniques, and it will suffer from the same limits to scalable multithreaded processing ifallit is built only on the traditional sequential-computation-based framework. Consideringallthese limitations of sequential-processor-basedallmultithreading, we are taking another approach to developing a multithreading processor dedicated to thread level parallelism(TLP). Our processor, named Fuce, is based on continuation-based multithreading. A thread is defined as a block of sequentially ordered instructions which areall executed exclusively. Every execution of a thread is triggered by one or more events, each of which is called continuation. The hardware cost and performance of the Fuce processor areallevaluated by means of a hardware implementation on FPGA and software simulation.

AN ARCHITECTURE OF FUSING COMMUNICATION AND EXECUTION FOR GLOBAL DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING

We are pursuing the FUCE architecture project at Kyushu University. FUCE means FUsion of Communication and Execution. The main objective of our research is, as the name shows, to develop a new architecture that truly fuses communication and computation. The FUCE project develops a new on-chip-multi-processor and kernel software on it. We name the processor FUCE processor, and the kernel software as CEFOS (Communication and Execution Fusion OS). The FUCE processor is designed as a network node processor to perform mainly switching/transmitting of messages/transaction and handling its contents. FUCE processor architecture is designed as a multiprocessor-on-chip to support the fine-grain multi-threading. The kernel software CEFOS is also developed on the concept of multithreading. User and system processes are constructed as a set of threads, which are executed concurrently according to thread dependences.

Security as a Service for User Customized Data Protection

Some of Internet services require users to provide their sensitive information such as credit card number, and an ID-password pair. In these services, the manner in which the provided information is used is solely determined by the service providers. As a result, even when the manner in which information is used by a service provider appears vulnerable, users have no choice but to allow such usage. In this paper, we propose a framework that enables users to select the manner in which their sensitive information is protected. In our framework, a policy, which defines the type of information protection, is offered as a Security as a Service. According to the policy, users can incorporate the type of information protection into a program. By allowing a service provider to use their sensitive information through this program, users can protect their sensitive information according to the manner chosen by them.

Customized program protection for a user customized data protection framework

Some of Internet services require users to provide their sensitive information such as their name, address, credit card number, and an ID-password pair. In these services, the manner in which the provided information is used is solely determined by the service providers. As a result, even when the manner in which information is used by a service provider appears vulnerable, users have no choice but to allow such usage. Therefore, we have proposed a user customized data protection framework that enables users to select the manner in which their sensitive information is protected. In our framework, a user selects a policy that defines the manner in which his/her information is to be protected and its manner defined by the policy is incorporated into a program. By allowing a service provider to the information provided by a user through the program, the user can protect his/her sensitive information in a manner selected by him/her. This framework works well when existing a manner (protection policy) which is tolerant to the alteration of the program, otherwise, a program alteration might be a concern. Therefore, in this paper, we attempts to protect a customized program by using program obfuscation and sanitizable signature techniques.