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Accelerating 2D DCT in Multi-core and Many-core Environments (멀티코어와 매니코어 환경에서의 2 차원 DCT 가속)

  • Hong, Jin-Gun;Jung, Sung-Wook;Kim, Cheong-Ghil;Burgstaller, Bernd
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2011.04a
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    • pp.250-253
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    • 2011
  • Chip manufacture nowadays turned their attention from accelerating uniprocessors to integrating multiple cores on a chip. Moreover desktop graphic hardware is now starting to support general purpose computation. Desktop users are able to use multi-core CPU and GPU as a high performance computing resources these days. However exploiting parallel computing resources are still challenging because of lack of higher programming abstraction for parallel programming. The 2-dimensional discrete cosine transform (2D-DCT) algorithms are most computational intensive part of JPEG encoding. There are many fast 2D-DCT algorithms already studied. We implemented several algorithms and estimated its runtime on multi-core CPU and GPU environments. Experiments show that data parallelism can be fully exploited on CPU and GPU architecture. We expect parallelized DCT bring performance benefit towards its applications such as JPEG and MPEG.

Dynamic Power Management Framework for Mobile Multi-core System (모바일 멀티코어 시스템을 위한 동적 전력관리 프레임워크)

  • Ahn, Young-Ho;Chung, Ki-Seok
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.47 no.7
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    • pp.52-60
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we propose a dynamic power management framework for multi-core systems. We reduced the power consumption of multi-core processors such as Intel Centrino Duo and ARM11 MPCore, which have been used at the consumer electronics and personal computer market. Each processor uses a different technique to save its power usage, but there is no embedded multi-core processor which has a precise power control mechanism such as dynamic voltage scaling technique. The proposed dynamic power management framework is suitable for smart phones which have an operating system to provide multi-processing capability. Basically, our framework follows an intuitive idea that reducing the power consumption of idle cores is the most effective way to save the overall power consumption of a multi-core processor. We could minimize the energy consumption used by idle cores with application-targeted policies that reflect the characteristics of active workloads. We defined some properties of an application to analyze the performance requirement in real time and automated the management process to verify the result quickly. We tested the proposed framework with popular processors such as Intel Centrino Duo and ARM11 MPCore, and were able to find that our framework dynamically reduced the power consumption of multi-core processors and satisfied the performance requirement of each program.

TRAO Multi-beam Legacy Survey of Nearby Filamentary Molecular Clouds : Progress Report

  • Kim, ShinYoung;Chung, Eun Jung;Lee, Chang Won;Myers, Philip C.;Caselli, Paola;Tafalla, Mario;Kim, Gwanjeong;Kim, Miryang;Soam, Archana;Gophinathan, Maheswar;Liu, Tie;Kim, Kyounghee;Kwon, Woojin;Kim, Jongsoo
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.32.1-32.1
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    • 2017
  • To dynamically and chemically understand how filaments, dense cores, and stars form under different environments, we are conducting a systematic mapping survey of nearby molecular clouds using the TRAO 14 m telescope with high ($N_2H^+$ 1-0, $HCO^+$ 1-0, SO 32-21, and $NH_2D$ v=1-0) and low ($^{13}CO$ 1-0, $C^{18}O$ 1-0) density tracers. The goals of this survey are to obtain the velocity distribution of low dense filaments and their dense cores for the study of their origin of the formation, to understand whether the dense cores form from any radial accretion or inward motions toward dense cores from their surrounding filaments, and to study the chemical differentiation of the filaments and the dense cores. Until Feb. 2017, the real OTF observation time is 460 hours. We have almost completed mapping observation with four molecular lines ($^{13}CO$ 1-0, $C^{18}O$ 1-0, $N_2H^+$ 1-0, and $HCO^+$ 1-0) on the five regions of molecular clouds (L1251 of Cepheus, Perseus west, Polaris south, BISTRO region of Serpense, California, and Orion B). The maps of a total area of $7.38deg^2$ for both $^{13}CO$ and $C^{18}O$ lines and $2.19deg^2$ for both $N_2H^+$ and $HCO^+$ lines were obtained. All OTF data were regridded to a cell size of 22 by 22 arcseconds. The $^{13}CO$ and $C^{18}O$ data show the RMS noise level of about 0.22 K and $N_2H^+$ and $HCO^+$ data show about 0.14 K at the velocity resolution of 0.06 km/s. Additional observations will be made on some regions that have not reached the noise level for analysis. We are refining the process for a massive amount of data and the data reduction and analysis are underway. This presentation introduces the overall progress from observations to data processing and the initial analysis results to date.

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Potential of gas generation and/or natural gas hydrate formation, and evidences of their presence in near seafloor sediments of the southwestern Ulleung Basin, East Sea (동해 울릉분지 남서부 천부 퇴적층에서의 가스 생성 및 천연가스 하이드레이트 형성 잠재력과 이들의 부존 증거)

  • Ryu, Byong-Jae;Lee, Young-Joo;Kim, Ji-Hoon;Riedel, M.;Hyndman, R.D.;Kim, Il-Soo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.11a
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    • pp.50-53
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    • 2006
  • Regional geophysical surveys and geological cal studies on natural gas hydrate (NGH) in the East Sea were carried out by the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) from 2000 to 2004. 16 piston cores, 2270 L-km of multi-channel reflection seismic (MCRS) data and 730 L-km of 3.5kHz Chirp data obtained from the southwestern part of the deep-water Ulleung Basin were analyzed in this study. In piston cores, cracks generally developed parallel to bedding suggest significant gas content. The core analyses showed high total organic carbon (TOC) content, sedimentation rate and heat flow of sediments. These are in favor of the general ion of substantial biogenic methane, which can form the NGH within the stability zone of the near seafloor sediments in the study area. The cores generally show also high residual hydrocarbon gas concentrations for the formation of natural gas hydrates The geophysical indicators of the presence of gas and/or NGH such as bottom simulating reflectors (BSRs), seismic blank Bones, pockmarks and gas seeping features were well defined on the MCRS and Chirp data.

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Probabilistic Power-saving Scheduling of a Real-time Parallel Task on Discrete DVFS-enabled Multi-core Processors (이산적 DVFS 멀티코어 프로세서 상에서 실시간 병렬 작업을 위한 확률적 저전력 스케쥴링)

  • Lee, Wan Yeon
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we propose a power-efficient scheduling scheme that stochastically minimizes the power consumption of a real-time parallel task while meeting the deadline on multicore processors. The proposed scheme applies the parallel processing that executes a task on multiple cores concurrently, and activates a part of all available cores with unused cores powered off, in order to save power consumption. It is proved that the proposed scheme minimizes the mean power consumption of a real-time parallel task with probabilistic computation amount on DVFS-enabled multicore processors with a finite set of discrete clock frequencies. Evaluation shows that the proposed scheme saves up to 81% power consumption of the previous method.

Hydrocarbon generation and indicator in the western Ulleung Basin (울릉분지 서부에서의 탄화수소 생성 및 지표)

  • Ryu, Byong-Jae;Kim, Ji-Hoon;Lee, Young-Joo;Riedel, M.;Hyndman, R.D.;Kim, Il-Soo
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.06a
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    • pp.507-510
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    • 2007
  • Piston cores retrieved from the western Ulleung Basin, East Sea were analyzed to examine the potential for hydrocarbon generation and to determine the hydrocarbon indicators. 2D multi-channel reflection seismic and Chirp data were also investigated for mapping and characterizing the geophysical hydrocarbon indicators such as BSR (bottom simulating reflector), blank zone, pock-mark etc. High organic carbon contents and sedimentation rates that suggest good condition for hydrocarbon generation. High pressure and low temperature condition, and high residual hydrocarbon concentrations are favor the formation of natural gas hydrate. In the piston cores, cracks generally oriented to bedding may indicate the gas expansion. The seismic data show several BSRs that are associated with natural gas hydrates and underlying free gas. A number of vertical to sub-vertical blank zones were well identified in the seismic sections. They often show the seismic pull-up structures, probably indicating the presence of high velocity hydrates. Numerous pockmarks were also observed in the Chirp profiles. They may indicate the presence of free gas below the hydrate stability zone as well.

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An Efficient Block Cipher Implementation on Many-Core Graphics Processing Units

  • Lee, Sang-Pil;Kim, Deok-Ho;Yi, Jae-Young;Ro, Won-Woo
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.159-174
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    • 2012
  • This paper presents a study on a high-performance design for a block cipher algorithm implemented on modern many-core graphics processing units (GPUs). The recent emergence of VLSI technology makes it feasible to fabricate multiple processing cores on a single chip and enables general-purpose computation on a GPU (GPGPU). The GPU strategy offers significant performance improvements for all-purpose computation and can be used to support a broad variety of applications, including cryptography. We have proposed an efficient implementation of the encryption/decryption operations of a block cipher algorithm, SEED, on off-the-shelf NVIDIA many-core graphics processors. In a thorough experiment, we achieved high performance that is capable of supporting a high network speed of up to 9.5 Gbps on an NVIDIA GTX285 system (which has 240 processing cores). Our implementation provides up to 4.75 times higher performance in terms of encoding and decoding throughput as compared to the Intel 8-core system.

A Study of Trace-driven Simulation for Multi-core Processor Architectures (멀티코어 프로세서의 명령어 자취형 모의실험에 대한 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Bok
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.9-13
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    • 2012
  • In order to overcome the complexity and power problems of superscalar processors, the multi-core architecture has been prevalent recently. Although the execution-driven simulation is wide spread, the trace-driven simulation has speed advantages over the execution-driven simulation. We present a methodology to simulate multi-core architecture using trace-driven simulator. Using SPEC 2000 benchmarks as input, the trace-driven simulation has been performed for the cores ranging from 2 to 16 extensively. As a result, the 16-core processor resulted in 4.1 IPC and 13.3 times speed up over single-core processor on the average.

A Study on the Adaptable Long Life Multi-dwelling Housing Design in Korea (융통성을 고려한 장수명 공동주택 디자인에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jin-Hee
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.15 no.6 s.59
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    • pp.172-177
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    • 2006
  • Most of the Korean multi-dwelling houses have less than 20 years of lifespan. Because the environmental issues such as energy consumption, limited resources, and demolition waste problems became been more and more critical, we now need to focus on long lasting and adaptable buildings. Korean wall bearing apartment buildings are constructed with site cast concrete for core, exterior, and interior together with pipes varied, so when the buildings are old and life style of the users changes, it is difficult to maintain and renovate these buildings. In this study, to resolve the problems described above, two types of Korean long life multi-dwelling housing models which represent improved durability and adaptability responding user's needs and life style changes were proposed with various methods as follows: Either column and beam structure or flat slab structure was used to utilize space better. To make maintenance easier and renovation economical for both public space and each unit, plumbing pipes, ducts, and conduits were clustered at the cores and public corridors with access doors and light weight partitions with steel studs and raised floors or above-ceiling spaces were used in lieu of site cast concrete walls and floor slabs with varied pipes.

Implementation and Performance Evaluation of Preempt-RT Based Multi-core Motion Controller for Industrial Robot (산업용 로봇 제어를 위한 Preempt-RT 기반 멀티코어 모션 제어기의 구현 및 성능 평가)

  • Kim, Ikhwan;Ahn, Hyosung;Kim, Taehyoun
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2017
  • Recently, with the ever-increasing complexity of industrial robot systems, it has been greatly attention to adopt a multi-core based motion controller with high cost-performance ratio. In this paper, we propose a software architecture that aims to utilize the computing power of multi-core processors. The key concept of our architecture is to use shared memory for the interplay between threads running on separate processor cores. And then, we have integrated our proposed architecture with an industrial standard compliant IDE for automatic code generation of motion runtime. For the performance evaluation, we constructed a test-bed consisting of a motion controller with Preempt-RT Linux based dual-core industrial PC and a 3-axis industrial robot platform. The experimental results show that the actuation time difference between axes is 10 ns in average and bounded up to 689 ns under $1000{\mu}s$ control period, which can come up with real-time performance for industrial robot.