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Software Partitioning for Protecting High-Performance Code

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
Office of the Secretary of Defense 		Award ID:
86144 		Program Year/Program:
2009 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
O081-IA1-1107 		Solicitation Year:
N/A 		Solicitation Topic Code:
N/A 		Solicitation Number:
N/A
Small Business Information
Reservoir Labs., Inc.
632 Broadway, Suite 803 New York, NY -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 2
Fiscal Year: 2009
Title: Software Partitioning for Protecting High-Performance Code
Agency / Branch: DOD / OSD
Contract: FA8650-09-C-1645
Award Amount: $749,885.00
 

Abstract:

Critical technology is increasingly encoded as software, exposing it to risk of loss when deployed on platforms in hostile environments. Because of this, special anti-tamper hardware may be incorporated into a device to prevent access to the software. The platform may also include insecure hardware resources, due to reasons of cost or power. There is a need to structure software in such a way that it can most effectively take advantage of both the protection afforded by the secure hardware and also the computational power provided by the non-secure hardware. In this project, we addressed the issue of protecting high-performance embedded computing (HPEC) code by partitioning it as necessary to execute sensitive portions on anti-tamper hardware. We based our software partitioning approach on Reservoir's R-Stream optimizing C compiler. R-Stream uses an innovative loop transformation framework to perform mapping and optimization of C programs to a variety of high-performance computing platforms. R-Stream is able to parallelize the static control programs that represent most of the high-performance computing application space in a way that is compatible with the goal of partitioning for execution on anti-tamper hardware.

Principal Investigator:

Jonathan Springer
Managing Engineer
2127800527
springer@reservoir.com

Business Contact:

Melanie Peters
Business Manager
2127800527
peters@reservoir.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

RESERVOIR LABS., INC.
632 Broadway Suite 803 New York, NY 10012

EIN/Tax ID: 061303098
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No