Measuring the Impact of Spectre and Meltdown
The work
| Authors | Andrew Prout; William Arcand; David Bestor; Bill Bergeron; Chansup Byun; Vijay N. Gadepally; Michael Houle; Matthew Hubbell; Michael P. Jones; Anna Klein; Peter W. Michaleas; Lauren Milechin; Julie Mullen; Antonio De Rosa; Siddharth Samsi; Charles Yee; Albert Reuther; Jeremy Kepner |
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| Editors | |
| Type | misc |
| Year | 2018 |
| Citekey | prout2018measuring |
Where it appeared
| Published in | IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference |
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| Pages | 1--5 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1109/hpec.2018.8547554 |
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| OpenAlex | W2949966323 |
Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1109/hpec.2018.8547554 |
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Abstract
The Spectre and Meltdown flaws in modern microprocessors represent a new class of attacks that have been difficult to mitigate. The mitigations that have been proposed have known performance impacts. The reported magnitude of these impacts varies depending on the industry sector and expected workload characteristics. In this paper, we measure the performance impact on several workloads relevant to HPC systems. We show that the impact can be significant on both synthetic and realistic workloads. We also show that the performance penalties are difficult to avoid even in dedicated systems where security is a lesser concern.
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Cite it as
@misc{prout2018measuring,
title = {Measuring the Impact of Spectre and Meltdown},
author = {Andrew Prout and William Arcand and David Bestor and Bill Bergeron and Chansup Byun and Vijay N. Gadepally and Michael Houle and Matthew Hubbell and Michael P. Jones and Anna Klein and Peter W. Michaleas and Lauren Milechin and Julie Mullen and Antonio De Rosa and Siddharth Samsi and Charles Yee and Albert Reuther and Jeremy Kepner},
year = {2018},
journal = {IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference},
pages = {1--5},
doi = {10.1109/hpec.2018.8547554},
}
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