• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.465-476
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a new dynamic reconfiguration method using application-level checkpointing in a grid computing environment with Cactus and Globus. The existing dynamic reconfiguration methods have been dependent on a specific hardware and operating system. But the proposed method performs a dynamic reconfiguration without supporting specific hardwares and operating systems and, an application is programmed without considering a dynamic reconfiguration. In the proposed method, the job starts with an initial configuration of Computing resources and the job restarts including new resources dynamically found at run-time. The proposed method determines whether to include the newly found idle sites by considering processor performance and available memory of the sites. Our method writes the intermediate results of the job on the disks using system-independent application-level checkpointing for real-time visualization during the job runs. After reconfiguring idle sites and idle processors newly found, the job resumes using checkpointing files. The proposed dynamic reconfiguration method is proved to be valid by decreasing total execution time In K*Grid.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.129-136
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• 2006

Grid computing has been appeared for solving large-scaled data which are not solved by a single computer. Grid computing is a new generation platform which connects geographically distributed heterogeneous resources. However, gathering heterogeneous distributed resources produces many difficult problems. Especially. to assure resource reliability is one of the most critical problems. So, we propose a grid resource scheduling model using grid resource reliability measurement. We evaluate resource reliability based on resource status data and apply it to the grid scheduling model in DEVSJAVA modeling and simulation. This paper evaluates parameters such as resource utilization, job loss and average turn-around time and estimates experiment results of our model in comparison with those of existing scheduling models such as a random scheduling model and a round-robin scheduling model. These experiment results showed that the resource reliability measurement scheduling model provides efficient resource allocation and stable Job processing in comparison with a random scheduling model and a round-robin scheduling model.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.15A no.3
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• pp.151-154
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• 2008

A middleware in grid computing environment is required to support seamless on-demand services over diverse resource situations in order to meet various user requirements [1]. Since grid computing applications need situation-aware middleware services in this environment. In this paper, we propose a semantic middleware architecture to support dynamic software component reconfiguration based fault and service ontology to provide fault-tolerance in a grid computing environment. Our middleware includes autonomic management to detect faults, analyze causes of them, and plan semantically meaningful strategies to recover from the failure using pre-defined fault and service ontology trees. We implemented a referenced prototype, Web-service based Application Execution Environment(Wapee), as a proof-of-concept, and showed the efficiency in runtime recovery.

• Proceedings of The Korean Society of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.189-201
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• 2003

Grid is a new Information Technology (IT) concept of "super Internet" for high-performance computing: worldwide collections of high-end resources - such as supercomputers, storage, advanced instruments and immerse environments. The Grid is expected to bring together geographically and organizationally dispersed computational resources, such as CPUs, storage systems, communication systems, real-time data sources and instruments, and human collaborators. The term "the Grid" was coined in the mid l990s to denote a proposed distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science and engineering. The term computational Grids refers to infrastructures aimed at allowing users to access and/or aggregate potentially large numbers of powerful and sophisticated resources. More formally, Grids are defined as infrastructure allowing flexible, secure, and coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions and resources referred to as virtual Organizations. GRID is an emerging IT as a kind of next generation Internet technology which will fit very well with Agrometeorological services in the future. I believe that it would contribute to the resource sharing in AgroMeteorology by providing super computing power, virtual storage, and efficient data exchanges, especially for developing countries that are suffering from the lack of resources for their agmet services at national level. Thus, the establishment of CAgM-GRID based on existing RAMINSII is proposed as a part of FWIS of WMO.part of FWIS of WMO.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2004.08c
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• pp.608-611
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• 2004

Grid computing environment can be used to interconnect a wide variety of geographically distributed heterogeneous computing resources based on high-speed network. To make business service, it is necessary for Grid accounting system to measure the computational cost by consuming computer resources. To collect resource consumption data, and to keep track of process without needing to recompile kernel source, we use system call wrapping. By making use of this technique, we modifies system call table and replace existing system call to new system call that can monitor processes running in CPU kernel currently. Therefore we can measure user process resource usage for Grid accounting system.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.569-579
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• 2006

Recently, the amount of genome sequence is increasing rapidly due to advanced computational techniques and experimental tools in the biological area. Sequence comparisons are very useful operations to predict the functions of the genes or proteins. However, it takes too much time to compare long sequence data and there are many research results for fast sequence comparisons. In this paper, we propose a hybrid grid system to improve the performance of the sequence comparisons based on the LanLinux system. Compared with conventional approaches, hybrid grid is easy to construct, maintain, and manage because there is no need to install SWs for every node. As a real experiment, we constructed an orthologous database for 89 prokaryotes just in a week under hybrid grid; note that it requires 33 weeks on a single computer.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1521-1530
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• 2002

This article proposes a pressure based method for predicting flows at all speeds. The compressible SIMPLE algorithm is extended to unstructured grid framework. Convection terms are discretized using second-order scheme with deferred correction approach. Diffusion term discretization is based on structured grid analogy that can be easily adopted to hybrid unstructured grid solver. This method also uses node centered scheme with edge based data structure for memory and computing time efficiency of arbitrary grid types. Both incompressible and compressible benchmark problems are solved using the above methodology. The demonstration of this method is extended to slip flow problem that has low Reynolds number but compressibility effect. It is shown that the proposed method can improve efficiency in memory usage and computing time without losing any accuracy.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.207-211
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• 2005

The pervasively proliferated computing environment in recent is a cluster system. This system is used in high performance computing area as a Grid system. However, the important information of cluster system in Grid environment does not provided to other systems. In this paper the scheme to provide these information is proposed. The proposed scheme provides the information of cluster system in the Grid environment. Based on this scheme the utilization possibilities of Grid information services are increased.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.71-77
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• 2002

The grid technology is believed to be the next generation research tool for both computational and experimental scientists. With advanced network technologies and middleware, geographically distributed facilities can be tightly connected to provided a huge amount of resources or remote accessibility, In this paper, an overview of grid technology will be introduced with an emphasis in application to computational fluid dynamics. The computational fluid dynamics, which involves solution of partial differential equations, is basically limited by the computing power, With the grid technology, virtually unlimited resources are provided. The schematic structure of middleware and grid environment, as well as some preliminary results are presented.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.78-93
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• 2002

통신 기술의 비약적 발전에 힘입어 기존의 Parallel Computing만으로는 해석할 수 없었던 거대 규모의 문제를 원격지에 있는 고성능의 자원간 연동을 통해 해석하고자 하는 연구가 활발히 진행중이며, 이와 같은 개념을 Grid Computing이라 한다. 본 연구에서는 Grid 환경을 이용한 CFD 해석 방안에 초점을 맞추고 있으며, 이를 위하여 분산된 컴퓨팅 자원을 다양하게 조합하여 Grid 환경에서의 Load Balancing을 위한 병렬 효율에 대한 연구를 수행하였다. 그리고, 다양한 성능 테스트의 결과를 기반으로 Grid 환경에서 두 개의 보조 부스터를 가지는 병렬형 다단 로켓에 대한 유동 해석을 수행하였다.