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Input–output memory management unit

Known as: I/O Memory Management Unit, IO Memory Management Unit, Iommu 
In computing, an input–output memory management unit (IOMMU) is a memory management unit (MMU) that connects a direct-memory-access–capable (DMA… 
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2017
2017
Understanding The Security of Discrete GPUs
GPUs have become an integral part of modern systems, but their implications for system security are not yet clear. This paper… 
2015
2015
Supporting High Performance Molecular Dynamics in Virtualized Clusters using IOMMU, SR-IOV, and GPUDirect
Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service paradigms have recently shown their utility for a vast array of computational problems, ranging… 
2013
2013
Secure I/O device sharing among virtual machines on multiple hosts
Virtualization allows flexible mappings between physical resources and virtual entities, and improves allocation efficiency and… 
2013
2013
Monitoring-Aware Virtual Platform Prototype of Heterogeneous NoC-Based Multicore SoCs
We present an open SystemC-based virtual platform that fits the design flow of heterogeneous, self-adaptive shared memory-based… 
2010
2010
On the DMA mapping problem in direct device assignment
I/O intensive workloads running in virtual machines can suffer massive performance degradation. Direct assignment of I/O devices… 
2010
2010
Redesigning xen's memory sharing mechanism for safe and efficient I/O virtualization
Xen's memory sharing mechanism, called the grant mechanism, is used to share I/O buffers in guest domains' memory with a driver… 
Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Live Migration with Pass-through Device for Linux VM
Open source Linux virtualization, such as Xen and KVM, has made great progress recently, and has been a hot topic in Linux world… 
Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Protection Strategies for Direct Access to Virtualized I/O Devices
Commodity virtual machine monitors forbid direct access to I/O devices by untrusted guest operating systems in order to provide… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
The Price of Safety : Evaluating IOMMU Performance
IOMMUs, IO Memory Management Units, are hardware devices that translate device DMA addresses to machine addresses. An isolation… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Utilizing IOMMUs for Virtualization in Linux and Xen Muli
IOMMUs are hardware devices that translate device DMA addresses to proper machine physical addresses. IOMMUs have long been used… 
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