The flow-graph machine currently being developed by Wave Semiconductor is a computer processor based on the dataflow model of computation, and has the potential to provide more energy-efficient, resource-efficient and scalable computing than sequential computer processors. In order to make the most of this potential, an operating system must be created for the machine. Such an operating system ...

The two most common computer forensics applications perform exclusively on Microsoft Windows Operating Systems, yet contemporary computer forensics examinations frequently encounter one or more of the three most common operating system environments, namely Windows, OS-X, or some form of UNIX or Linux. Additionally, government and private computer forensics laboratories frequently encounter budg...

Operating systems are vital system software that, without them, humans would not be able to manage and use computer systems. In essence, an operating system is a collection of software programs whose role is to manage computer resources and provide an interface for client applications to interact with the different computer hardware. Most of the commercial operating systems available today on t...

To address national needs for computer security education, many universities have incorporated computer and security courses into their undergraduate and graduate curricula. In these courses, students learn how to design, implement, analyze, test, and operate a system or a network to achieve security. Pedagogical research has shown that effective laboratory exercises are critically important to...

As the number of system gates available on reconfigurable platforms increase beyond 20 million, the issue of the management of these resources and their sharing among may applications and users will become more of a concern. In this paper we describe the research issues for managing these resources in an operating system for a reconfigurable computer. We also detail a feasible set of components...

To address national needs for computer security education, many universities have incorporated computer and security courses into their undergraduate and graduate curricula. In these courses, students learn how to design, implement, analyze, test, and operate a system or a network to achieve security. Pedagogical research has shown that effective laboratory exercises are critically important to...

and possibly error-prone or malicious users are to coexist on the same computer system. In this paper, we show that a hierarchically structured operating system, such as produced by a virtual machine system, that combines a virtual machine monitor with several independent operating systems (V M M ~ O S) , provides substantially better software security than a conventional two-level multiprogram...

Files stored on a computer are managed by the file system of the operating system. When a computer is used to store illegal data such as child pornography, it is important that the existence of the illegal data can be proven even after the data is deleted. In this study, a new functionality is added to the Zettabyte File System (ZFS) debugger, which digs into the physical disk of the computer w...

BACKGROUND Virtual screening of small molecules using molecular docking has become an important tool in drug discovery. However, large scale virtual screening is time demanding and usually requires dedicated computer clusters. There are a number of software tools that perform virtual screening using AutoDock4 but they require access to dedicated Linux computer clusters. Also no software is avai...