Third-Party Resources for the USMLE

Governing Third-Party Development through Platform boundary Resources

Third-party development is increasingly relevant for software platform owners seeking to generate complementary assets in the form of applications. The governance of such development involves two seemingly conflicting goals: the maintenance of platform control and the transfer of design capability to users. A key element in simultaneously accommodating these goals is platform boundary resources...

Third Party Tools for Titan

Over the past few years, as part of the Oak Ridge Leadership Class Facility project (OLCF-3), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has been engaged with several third party tools vendors with the aim of enhancing the tool offerings for ORNLs GPU-based platform, Titan. This effort has resulted in enhancements to CAPS’ HMPP compiler, Allinea’s DDT debugger, and the Vampir suite of performance ana...

Practical Third-Party Attestation for the Cloud

Central to establishing trust in a service is knowing what code is running. On a single host, this can be ensured by locally downloading and compiling code, including the operating system image. However, this is not possible for programs that are run by another party: even if the source code is known and available to a client, she cannot verify that a service is actually running that trusted co...

Party Pooper: Third-Party Libraries in Android

Third-party libraries (3PLs), such as advertising networks, gaming networks, and analytics engines, are an integral part of modern mobile platforms. If Android developers want to integrate functionality provided by 3PLs, they must bundle opaque binary code into their applications. Unfortunately, developers must in essence overprivilege their Android applications by requesting dangerous permissi...

Third-Party Decision