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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Masters Theses

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2010

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Dynamic Application Level Security Sensors, Christopher Thomas Rathgeb May 2010

Dynamic Application Level Security Sensors, Christopher Thomas Rathgeb

Masters Theses

The battle for cyber supremacy is a cat and mouse game: evolving threats from internal and external sources make it difficult to protect critical systems. With the diverse and high risk nature of these threats, there is a need for robust techniques that can quickly adapt and address this evolution. Existing tools such as Splunk, Snort, and Bro help IT administrators defend their networks by actively parsing through network traffic or system log data. These tools have been thoroughly developed and have proven to be a formidable defense against many cyberattacks. However, they are vulnerable to zero-day attacks, slow attacks, …


Gpu Implementation Of A Novel Approach To Cramer’S Algorithm For Solving Large Scale Linear Systems, Rosanne Lane West May 2010

Gpu Implementation Of A Novel Approach To Cramer’S Algorithm For Solving Large Scale Linear Systems, Rosanne Lane West

Masters Theses

Scientific computing often requires solving systems of linear equations. Most software pack- ages for solving large-scale linear systems use Gaussian elimination methods such as LU- decomposition. An alternative method, recently introduced by K. Habgood and I. Arel, involves an application of Cramer’s Rule and Chio’s condensation to achieve a better per- forming system for solving linear systems on parallel computing platforms. This thesis describes an implementation of this algorithm on an nVidia graphics processor card us- ing the CUDA language. Increased performance, relative to the serial implementation, is demonstrated, paving the way for future parallel realizations of the scheme.