• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.13-21
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• 2013

Recently, although the number of cores on a chip multi-processor increases, multi-programming or multi-threaded programming techniques to utilize the whole cores are still insufficient. Therefore, there inevitably exist some idle cores which are not working. This results in a waste of the caches, so-called idle caches which are dedicated to those idle cores. In this research, we propose amethodology to exploit idle caches effectively as victimcaches of on-chip memory resource. In simulation results, we have achieved 19.4%and 10.2%IPC improvement in 4-core and 16-core respectively, compared to previous technique.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.1-8
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• 2013

TIn this paper, we propose a high performance L1 cache structure on the high clock CPU of 4GHz. The proposed cache memory consists of three parts, i.e., a direct-mapped cache to support fast access time, a two-way set associative buffer to exploit temporal locality, and a buffer-select table. The most recently accessed data is stored in the direct-mapped cache. If a data has a high probability of a repeated reference, when the data is replaced from the direct-mapped cache, the data is selectively stored into the two-way set associative buffer. For the high performance and low power consumption, we propose an one way among two ways set associative buffer is selectively accessed based on the buffer-select table(BST). According to simulation results, Energy $^*$ Delay product can improve about 45%, 70% and 75% compared with a direct mapped cache, a four-way set associative cache, and a victim cache with two times more space respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06a
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• pp.547-550
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• 2011

플래시 메모리는 낮은 전력 소비와 높은 성능으로 인해 휴대용 기기에 널리 사용되고 있다. FTL은 플래시 내 자료를 관리하는 소프트웨어 계층으로 플래시 전체의 성능에 영향을 끼친다. 그 중 페이지 레벨 매핑 기법을 적용한 FTL은 유연성이 높고 속도가 빠르나 주소 변환 테이블의 크기가 큰 단점이 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 자주 접근되는 영역의 매핑 주소만을 매핑 테이블 캐시에 올려놓는 Demand-based FTL(DFTL)이 제안되었다. DFTL 에서는 CMT(Cache Mapping Table)의 참조율이 떨어지는 경우 빈번한 플래시 메모리 접근 오버헤드가 발생하게 된다. 이러한 문제는 흔히 발생하는 일반적인 순차 접근에서조차 문제가 된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 저장 장치의 접근 패턴을 예측하여 CMT의 참조 엔트리를 미리 읽어오는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 저장 장치 접근 패턴의 순차성을 판단하여 연속된 매핑 주소를 미리 CMT에 올려놓고, 읽어오는 매핑 주소 엔트리의 양은 동적으로 관리한다. 추가적으로 CMT에서 발생하는 스래싱(thrashing) 을 파악하기 위해 쫓겨나는 희생 엔트리의 접근 여부를 분석하여 이를 활용하였다. 실험 결과에서 본 기법은 기존의 DFTL에 비해 약간의 공간 오버헤드와 함께 평균 50% 증가한 참조율을 보였다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.1486-1494
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• 2015

While Linux-based mobile devices such as smartphones are increasingly used, they often exhibit poor response time. One of the factors that influence the user-perceived interactivity is the high page fault rate of interactive tasks. Pages owned by interactive tasks can be removed from the main memory due to the memory contention between interactive and background tasks. Since this increases the page fault rate of the interactive tasks, their executions tend to suffer from increased delays. This paper proposes a framework-assisted selective page protection mechanism for improving interactivity of Linux-based mobile devices. The framework-assisted selective page protection enables the run-time system to identify interactive tasks at the framework level and to deliver their IDs to the kernel. As a result, the kernel can maintain the pages owned by the identified interactive tasks and avoid the occurrences of page faults. The experimental results demonstrate the selective page protection technique reduces response time up to 11% by reducing the page fault rate by 37%.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.121-129
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• 2017

The evolution of biotechnology is no longer strange to the hypothetical scenario of cloning human genes to make cloned human beings. The characters of are cloned humans made in the laboratory by the 100-year-old life planning. They are cohabited in a school called Hailsham, where they are secretly reared. The purpose of this project is to provide healthy organs to real human patients with incurable diseases. The main characters Cathy, Tommy, and Ruth experience the growth of body and consciousness here during adolescence, and they also know the secret of identity as a clone. As adults, they move to a second residence, Cottage and are ready to begin organ donation. The second stage is also part of a program to provide more genuine-like organs to real patients. Even though they know all the plans that humans have built, they do not resist them and fatefully accept their situation. However, their non-responsiveness is not a declaration of renunciation of life, but a self-sacrificing life extension for another future that is the extension of life through their organ donation. The film emphasizes the fraternity and sacrificial attitudes of the cloned human beings and shows that it is necessary to continue the discussions on cloned human beings from a bio-ethical point of view supported by philosophical reasons.