• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.192-200
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• 2002

The performance of a PC cluster system is limited by the use of traditional communication protocols, such as TCP/IP because these protocols are accompanied with significant software overheads. To overcome the problem, systems based on user-level interface for message passing without intervention of kernel have been developed. The VIA(Virtual Interface Architecture) is one of the representative user-level interfaces which provide low latency and high bandwidth. In this paper, a VIA system is implemented on an SCI(Scalable Coherent Interface) network based PC cluster. The system provides both message-passing and shared-memory programming environments and shows the maximum bandwidth of 84MB/s and the latency of $8{\mu}s$. The system also shows better performance in comparison with other comparable computer systems in carrying out parallel benchmark programs.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.30 no.3 s.246
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• pp.231-240
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• 2006

Immersive virtual reality (VR) for the manufacturing planning helps to shorten the planning times as well as to improve the quality of planning results. However, VR equipment is expensive, both in terms of development efforts and device. Engineers also spend time to manually repair erroneous 3-D shape because of imperfect translation between 3-D engineering CAD model and VR system format. In this paper a method is proposed to link 3-D engineering CAD model to a multichannel visualization system with PC clusters. The multichannel visualization module enables distributed computing for PC clusters, which can reduce the cost of VR experience while offering high performance. Each PC in a cluster renders a particular viewpoint of a scene. Scenes are synchronized by reading parameters from the master scene control module and passing them to client scenes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.10d
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• pp.236-239
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• 2006

무선 센서 네트워크에서는 에너지 제약이라는 특징 때문에 에너지 효율과 관련된 많은 연구가 진행되고 있지만 대부분의 연구는 에너지를 보존하기 위해 센서노드의 작업을 줄이는 소극적인 방식을 취한다. 이에 반해 파워 컨트롤 기법은 전송 파워를 조절하여 불필요한 에너지 소모를 줄이는 적극적인 방식이다. 본 논문에서는 무선 센서 네트워크의 클러스터 기반 라우팅 프로토콜인 LEACH(Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy)에 파워 컨트롤 기법을 적용한 LEACH-PC(LEACH-Power Control)를 제안하였다. LEACH-PC는 클러스터 구성에 사용한 RSSI(Received Signal Strength Indicator) 정보를 이용하여 클러스터 내부 통신 단계에서 파워 컨트롤을 수행한다. LEACH-PC는 에너지 효율성 측면에서 기존의 LEACH 보다 좋은 성능을 보임을 실험을 통해 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1265-1267
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• 2015

최근 IoT 기술의 등장으로 저전력 소형 컴퓨터인 라즈베리파이 클러스터가 IoT 데이터 처리를 위해 사용되고 있다. IoT 기술이 발전하면서 다양한 데이터가 생성되고 있으며 IoT 환경에서도 빅데이터 처리가 요구되고 있다. 빅데이터 처리 프레임워크에는 일반적으로 하둡이 사용되고 있으며 이를 대체하는 솔루션으로 Apache Spark가 등장했다. 본 논문에서는 PC와 라즈베리파이 클러스터에서의 성능을 Apache Spark를 통해 비교하였다. 본 실험을 위해 Yelp 데이터를 사용하며 데이터 로드 시간과 Spark SQL을 이용한 데이터 처리 시간을 통해 성능을 비교하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.1_2
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• pp.129-139
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• 2003

The PC cluster architecture is considered as a cost-effective alternative to the existing supercomputers for realizing a high-performance information retrieval (IR) system. To implement an efficient IR system on a PC cluster, it is essential to achieve maximum parallelism by having the data appropriately distributed to the local hard disks of the PCs in such a way that the disk I/O and the subsequent computation are distributed as evenly as possible to all the PCs. If the terms in the inverted index file can be classified to closely related clusters, the parallelism can be maximized by distributing them to the PCs in an interleaved manner. One of the goals of this research is the development of methods for automatically clustering the terms based on the likelihood of the terms' co-occurrence in the same query. Also, in this paper, we propose a method for duplicate distribution of inverted index records among the PCs to achieve fault-tolerance as well as dynamic load balancing. Experiments with a large corpus revealed the efficiency and effectiveness of our method.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.275-281
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• 2013

In this paper, determination of the scalability of the cluster composed common personal computer was performed when optimization of reinforced concrete structure using genetic algorithm. The goal of this research is watching the potential of multi-core-PC cluster for optimization of seismic design of reinforced-concrete structures. By increasing the number of core-processer of cluster, decreasing of computation time per each generation of genetic algorithm was observed. After classifying the components in singular personal computer, the estimation of the expected bottle-neck phenomenon and comparison with wall-clock time and Amdahl's law equation was performed. So we could obseved the scalability of the cluster appear complex tendency. For separating the bottle-neck phenomenon of physical and algorithm, the different size of population was selected for genetic algorithm cases. When using 64 core-processor, the efficiency of cluster is low as 31.2% compared with Amdahl's law efficiency.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.39-46
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• 2017

Dongguan City of Guangdong province, one of the core areas of the Pearl River Delta, has also pursued economic development through the geographical advantage close to Hong Kong. In the early 1980s, small and medium-sized multinational corporations related to home appliances industry from Hong Kong invested to the Dongguan area and set up a production factory. In the mid-1990s, as Taiwanese PC manufacturers invested, local industrial clusters have developed in Dongguan with core of the IT, PC components and electronic industries. The case of the IT industrial cluster in Dongguan is a typical example of the development of Chinese manufacturing industry after the reform of China. This paper focused on the coupling strategy case of Dongguan City industrial cluster in Guangdong province, and theoretically compared the endogenous growth factor analysis(NMID) of regional industrial development with the regional differentiation of industry based on external linkage with global production network(GPN).

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.550-560
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• 2002

External sort on cluster computers requires not only fast internal sorting computation but also careful scheduling of disk input and output and interprocessor communication through networks. This is because the overall time for the execution is determined by reflecting the times for all the jobs involved, and the portion for interprocessor communication and disk I/O operations is significant. In this paper, we improve the sorting performance (sorting throughput) on a cluster of PCs with a low-speed network by developing a new algorithm that enables even distribution of load among processors, and optimizes the disk read and write operations with other computation/communication activities during the sort. Experimental results support the effectiveness of the algorithm. We observe the algorithm reduces the sort time by 45% compared to the previous NOW-sort[1], and provides more scalability in the expansion of the computing nodes of the cluster as well.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.4-6
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• 2004

클러스터 컴퓨터에서 접속된 모든 노드들의 디스크들을 통합 사용하기 위한 SIOS의 구현은 사용자 레벨과 파일 시스템 레벨, 그리고 디바이스 드라이버 레벨로 분류할 수 있다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 방법은 현재 공개되어 있는 소프트웨어 라이브러리만을 이용하여 리눅스 클러스터에서 SIOS를 구현하는 방법으로서, 확장 네트워크 블록 디바이스(ENBD: Enhanced Network Block Device)를 이용한 디바이스 드라이버 레벨의 하위 계층과 S/W RAID 및 NFS를 이용한 파일 시스템 레벨의 상위 계층으로 구성된다. 이 방법의 주요 장점은 현재 공개되어 있는 소프트웨어 라이브러리를 이용하기 때문에 구현이 용이하고 비용이 들지 않는다는 점이다. 그리고 하위 계층으로서 디바이스 드라이버 레벨의 ENBD를 이용하기 때문에 파일 시스템을 변경하지 않기 때문에 이전의 응용 프로그램에 대한 호환성이 높다. 또한, 상위 계층에서는 파일 시스템 레벨의 S/W RAID와 NFS를 이용함에 따라 디스크 배열 방식의 조정이 비교적 자유롭다. 또 다른 장점은 하위 계층과 상위 계층이 서로 독립적이기 때문에, 클러스터의 사용 목적에 따라 각 계층을 다양한 방법으로 변경할 수 있다는 것이다. Bonnie 벤치마크를 이용한 성능 측정 결과에 따르면, ENBD를 이용하여 RAID-5로 구성한 경우에 오버헤드가 높은 NFS를 사용했음에도 불구하고 비용이 많이 드는 다른 방법과 대등한 성능을 보였으며, 부분적으로는 더 높은 성능과 확장성을 가지는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.45-55
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• 2003

Weather conditions have played a vital role in a war. Many historical records reported that the miss use of weather information is the main reason of the lost a war. In this study we demonstrated the possibility of applying the numerical weather prediction system(NWPS) for military operations. The NWPS consists of PC-cluster as a super computer, data assimilation system ingesting many remote sensing observation, and graphic systems. High resolution prediction in NWPS can provide useful weather information such as wind, temperature, sea fog and so on for military operations.