• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.270-279
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• 2018

PCI Express (PCIe) bus, which was only used as an internal I/O bus of a computer system, has expanded its function to outside of a system, with progress of PCIe switching processor. In particular, advanced features of PCIe switching processor enable PCIe bus to serve as an interconnection network as well as connecting external devices. As PCIe switching processors more advanced, it is required to consider the different adapter card architecture. This study developed multipurpose adapter cards by applying an on-board optical module, a latest optical communications element, in order to improve transfer distance and utilization. The performance evaluation confirmed that the new adapter cards with long cable can provide the same bandwidth as that of the existing adapter cards with short copper cable.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.13A no.6 s.103
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• pp.495-500
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• 2006

The role of autonomic and intelligent agents in various environments is getting more important as demand on ubiquitous computing grows. The agents exchange information using the ACL (Agent Communication Language) to autonomously solve the problems. In this paper we propose a way of efficient interoperability technique between the agent framework built based on the international standard FIPA(Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents) and the CORBA event service-based information bus adapter developed by us. The design and implementation of EMTI (Efficient Message Transport Interface) allowing communication between the information bus adapter which is non-agent platform and JADE platform are presented and its performance is evaluated by letting them exchange a large amount of messages.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.08a
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• pp.87-90
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• 2006

Nowadays, we can enjoy access to high speed network and advanced services of convergence between broadcasting and communication anywhere and anytime through a ubiquitous computing. So, now digital convergence devices come out constantly. These devices are required faster network environment for high speed data processing than before. In this paper, we describe the design of InfiniBnad network adapter, which is included two FPGA chipsets. When this adapter is installed to Digital Convergence Platform (DCP) network performance will be improved. The adapter includes 12channel serial ports for external communication and internally, uses PCI-Express bus. We have finished the test of high speed serial based network adapter through composing complete InfiniBand network and applied fabric management software. So, we have verified that it can be applied on DCP environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.280-282
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• 2006

대용량 데이터 처리를 위한 SAN(Storago Area Network)는 각 호스트마다 두 대의 HBA(Host Bus Adapter)사용 하며, 한대는 Active로서 활동을 하고 다른 한대는 Active가 동작하지 않을 때를 대비하여 Standby로 사용된다. 현재 리눅스 커널에선 두 대의 HBA를 동시에 사용하여 효율성을 극대화하기 위한 멀티패스를 지원하고 있다. 데이터의 패스는 라운드 로빈 방식에 의해 수행되며 단순히 패스를 돌아가며 선택하는 방식을 사용한다. 라운드 로빈 방식의 패스 셀렉터는 워크로드의 양이 일정하지 못할 경우에는 좋지 않은 성능을 보인다. 본 논문은 워크로드의 양이 일정하지 않을 경우에도 동일한 성능을 낼 수 있는 패스 셀렉터를 제안한다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.499-514
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• 1997

This paper proprses the architeecture of an interconnection network for Advanced Information Communi-cation Procssing System(AICPS)developde for prividing open information communication servies on a variety of heterogeneous networks.The proposed Interconnection network,called High Speed Swiching Fabric(HSSF),has been designed by a common bus.It can handile 32 i/O channels,each of which uses serial communication method using 100Mbps TAXI.The switching bandwidth of the common bus is 640Mvps.Each I/O channel can be alloted about 20Mbps bandwidth in steady state,and therefore it's sufficient bandwidth is able to interwork with ISDN and Internet services, as well as PSTN. HSSF is composed of the switching board assembly,the subscriber,I/O board assemly,and the backplane board assembly.An attached node takes in the network adapter board assembly to adapt the high speed interworking protocol.For reliability,HSSF is duplicated with load-sharing method.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• v.10 no.spc
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• pp.56-65
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• 2022

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) is a Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) Tier-1 center mandated to preserve raw data produced from A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) experiment using the world's largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Physical medium used widely for long-term data preservation is tape, thanks to its reliability and least price per capacity compared to other media such as optical disk, hard disk, and solid-state disk. However, decreasing numbers of manufacturers for both tape drives and cartridges, and patent disputes among them escalated risk of market. As alternative to tape-based data preservation strategy, we proposed disk-only erasure-coded archival storage system, Custodial Disk Storage (CDS), powered by Exascale Open Storage (EOS), an open-source storage management software developed by CERN. CDS system consists of 18 high density Just-Bunch-Of-Disks (JBOD) enclosures attached to 9 servers through 12 Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Host Bus Adapter (HBA) interfaces via multiple paths for redundancy and multiplexing. For data protection, we introduced Reed-Solomon (RS) (16, 4) Erasure Coding (EC) layout, where the number of data and parity blocks are 12 and 4 respectively, which gives the annual data loss probability equivalent to 5×10^-14. In this paper, we discuss CDS system design based on JBOD products, performance limitations, and data protection strategy accommodating EOS EC implementation. We present CDS operations for ALICE experiment and long-term power consumption measurement.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.32 no.11_12
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• pp.557-565
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• 2005

This paper presents the development and implementation of a zero-copy file transfer mechanism that improves the efficiency of file transfers for PC cluster systems using hardware-based VIA(Virtual Interface Architecture) network adapters. VIA is one of the representative user-level communication interfaces, but because there is no library for file transfer, one copy occurs between kernel buffer and user boilers. Our mechanism presents a file transfer primitive that does not require the file system to be modified and allows the NIC to transfer data from the kernel buffer to the remote node directly without copying. To do this, we have developed a hardware-based VIA network adapter, which supports the PCI 64bit/66MHz bus and Gigabit Ethernet, as a NIC, and implemented a zero-copy file transfer mechanism. The experimental results show that the overhead of data coy and context switching in the sender is greatly reduced and the CPU utilization of the sender is reduced to $30\%\~40\%$ of the VIA send/receive mechanism. We demonstrate the performance of the zero-copy file transfer mechanism experimentally. and compare the results with those from existing file transfer mechanisms.