• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.177-184
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• 2017

High performance non-volatile memory system can mitigate the gap between main memory and storage. However, no single memory devices fulfill the requirements. Non-volatile Dual In-line Memory Module (NVDIMM) consisted of DRAMs and NAND Flashes has been proposed to achieve the performance and non-volatility simultaneously. When power outage occurs, data in DRAM is backed up into NAND Flash using a small-size external energy storage such as a supercapacitor. Backup and restore operations of NVDIMM do not cooperate with the operating system in the NVDIMM standard, thus there is room to optimize its operation. This paper analysis the operation of NVDIMM and proposes a method to reduce backup and restore time. Particularly, data compression is introduced to reduce the amount of data that to be backed up and restored. The simulation results show that the proposed method reduces up to 72.6% of backup and restore time.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.111-116
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• 2023

The WiscKey database, which optimizes overhead by compaction of the LSM tree-based Key-Value database, stores the value in a separate file, and stores only the key and value addresses in the database. Each time an fsync system call function is used to ensure data integrity in the process of storing values. In previously conducted studies, workload performance was reduced by up to 5.8 times as a result of performing the workload without calling the fsync system call function. However, it is difficult to ensure the data integrity of the database without using the fsync system call function. In this paper, to reduce the overhead of the fsync system call function while performing workloads on the WiscKey database, we use NVDIMM caching techniques to ensure data integrity while improving the performance of the WiscKey database.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2020.01a
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• pp.1-2
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• 2020

응용프로그램의 응답성을 향상시키기 위해서는 저장장치 시스템의 데이터 처리 능력이 중요하다. 한편, 차세대 메모리(NVDIMM)는 DRAM과 SSD 중간 정도의 성능 특성과 저장 용량을 갖는다. NVDIMM을 저장장치의 캐시로 사용함으로써 메모리와 저장장치의 격차는 많이 줄게 된다. 본 논문에서는 경량의 재사용 거리 측정 기법을 이용하여 효율적으로 디스크를 캐싱하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안 기법은 경량의 재사용 거리 측정 기법을 바탕으로 계산된 CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics)값에 따라 디스크 캐시에 해당 데이터 적재 여부를 결정한다. 결과적으로 제안 기법을 적용한 디스크 캐시를 운용함에 따라 캐시의 히트율을 향상시켰다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.151-158
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• 2019

With the recent advances of memory technologies, high-performance non-volatile memories such as non-volatile dual in-line memory module (NVDIMM) have begun to be used as an addition or an alternative to server-side storages. When these memory bus-connected storages (MBSs) are installed over non-uniform memory access (NUMA) servers, the distance between NUMA nodes and MBSs is one of the crucial factors that influence file processing performance, because the access latency of a NUMA system varies depending on its distance from the NUMA nodes. This paper presents the design and implementation of a high-performance logical volume manager for MBSs, called MBS-LVM, when multiple MBSs are scattered over a NUMA server. The MBS-LVM consolidates the address space of each MBS into a single global address space and dynamically utilizes storage spaces such that each thread can access an MBS with the lowest latency possible. We implemented the MBS-LVM in the Linux kernel and evaluated its performance by porting it over the tmpfs, a memory-based file system widely used in Linux. The results of the benchmarking show that the write performance of the tmpfs using MBS-LVM has been improved by up to twenty times against the original tmpfs over a NUMA server with four nodes.

• Journal of Information Technology Services
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.79-90
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• 2019

Maximizing energy efficiency minimizes the energy consumption of computation, storage and communications required for IT services, resulting in economic and environmental benefits. Recent advancement of flash and next generation non-volatile memory technology and price decrease of those memories have led to the rise of so-called AFA (All-Flash Array) storage devices made of flash or next generation non-volatile memory. Currently, the AFA devices are rapidly replacing traditional storages in the high-performance servers due to their fast input/output characteristics. However, it is not well known how effective the energy efficiency of the AFA devices in the real world. This paper shows input/output performance and power consumption of the AFA devices measured on the Linux XFS file system via experiments and discusses energy efficiency of the AFA devices in the real world.