• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.412-414
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• 2004

수십 대의 PC들로 구성된 학교 PC 실 또는 교육 목적 PC 실에서는 컴퓨터들이 분산 구조로 되어 있어서 각 컴퓨터별로 셋업. 유지보수, 업그레이드가 각각 따로따로 수행된다. 이러한 분산 구조에 대한 대안으로 씬 클라이언트 컴퓨팅 환경을 고려해 볼 수 있다. 씬 클라이언트 컴퓨팅 환경에서, 클라이언트 쪽 장치는 사용자에게 친숙한 GUI 와 멀티미디어 지원과 함께 주로 IO 기능들을 제공하는 반면에 터미널 서버라 불리는 원격 서버들은 컴퓨팅 파워를 제공한다. 이 환경에서는 많은 클라이언트를 지원하기 위해서 터미널 서버들을 클러스터로 구성할 수 있다. 그러나 이러한 구조에서는 터미널 세션의 유지와 사용자의 다양한 컴퓨팅 사용 패턴 요인으로 부하 분산이 어렵고 결과적으로 터미널 서버 자원의 활용도가 낮아지는 단점을 가진다. 이러한 단점을 보완하기 일해 본 논문에서는 적응적 터미널 클러스터를 제안한다. 이 구조에서는 부하가 적은 그룹에 속한 터미널 서버가 부하가 큰 그룹으로 실시간에 동적으로 재 할당될 수 있다. 제안된 적응적 터미널 클러스터를 일반적인 터미널 클러스터와 그룹 기반 비적응적 터미널 클러스터와 비교하고 실험을 통해 제안된 방법의 유효성을 검증하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.35-41
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• 2002

It is extremely important to minimize network access time in constructing a high-performance PC cluster system For an SCI based PC cluster it is possilbe to reduce the network access time by maintaining network cache in each cluster node, This paper presents a CC-NUMA card that utilizes network cache for SCI based PC clustering The CC-NUMA card is directly plugged into the PCI solot of each node, and contains shared memory network cache, and interconnection modules. The network cache is maintained for the shared memory on the PCI bus of cluster nodes. The coherency mechanism between the network cache and the shared memory is based on the IEEE SCI standard. A CC-NUMA prototype card is developed to evaluate the performance of the system. According to the experiments. the cluster system with the CC-NUMA card showed considerable improvements compared with an SCI based clustser without network cache.

• 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 KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.11
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• pp.635-642
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• 2004

The traditional communication protocols such as TCP/IP are not suitable for PC cluster systems because of their high software processing overhead. To eliminate this overhead, industry leaders have defined the Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA). VIA provides two different data transfer mechanisms, a traditional Send/Receive model and the Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) model. RDMA is extremely efficient way to reduce software overhead because it can bypass the OS and use the network interface controller (NIC) directly for communication, also bypass the CPU on the remote host. In this paper, we have implemented VIA-based RDMA mechanism in hardware. Compared to the traditional Send/Receive model, the RDMA mechanism improves latency and bandwidth. Our RDMA mechanism can also communicate without using remote CPU cycles. Our experimental results show a minimum latency of 12.5${\mu}\textrm{s}$ and a maximum bandwidth of 95.5MB/s. As a result, our RDMA mechanism allows PC cluster systems to have a high performance communication method.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2005

An aggregation query computes aggregate information over a data cube in the query range specified by a user Existing methods based on the prefix-sum approach use an additional cube called the prefix-sum cube(PC), to store the cumulative sums of data, causing a high space overhead. This space overhead not only leads to extra costs for storage devices, but also causes additional propagations of updates and longer access time on physical devices. In this paper, we propose a new prefix-sum cube called 'SPEC' which drastically reduces the space of the PC in a large data warehouse. The SPEC decreases the update propagation caused by the dependency between values in cells of the PC. We develop an effective algorithm which finds dense sub-cubes from a large data cube. We perform an extensive experiment with respect to various dimensions of the data cube and query sizes, and examine the effectiveness and performance ot our proposed method. Experimental results show that the SPEC significantly reduces the space of the PC while maintaining a reasonable query performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.985-988
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• 2001

본 연구는 다중 PC 노드로 연결된 클러스터링 시스템을 위해 마이크로 커널을 기반으로한 분산 운영체제를 탑제하여 운영되는 DCM의 고 가용성과 공유 디스크의 입출력 수행 속도를 향상시키는 데 있다. 마이크로 커널에서 제공된 서로 다른 디스크를 메시지 패싱 기법을 이용하여 입출력 성능 향상과 디스크 상의 자료 무결성을 보장할 목적으로 고 가용성의 DCM를 설계 및 구현하여 시스템의 생산성을 향상시킨다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.802-803
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• 2007

전력산업의 구조개편에 따라 현재 전력시스템은 안전도의 위협수준에 가깝게 운영되어지도록 강요받고 있다. 이러한 시대적 흐름에 의해 안전도(security)해석에 대한 보다 빠르고 정확한 연구가 중요시 되고 있다. 본 연구는 전력시스템의 안전도 해석에 있어 상정사고(contingency)를 고려할 때 클러스터링 기법을 이용한 송전 네트워크의 축약 알고리즘을 제안한다. 또한 PC 클러스터 시스템을 이용한 병렬처리기법을 이용한 상정사고의 분할연산을 수행하고자 한다. IEEE 39 모선시스템을 통해 제안된 알고리즘을 평가할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.45-48
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• 2003

We can easily buy network system for high performance micro-processor, progress computer architecture is caused of high bandwidth and low delay time. Coupling PC-based commodity technology with distributed computing methodologies provides an important advance in the development of single-user dedicated systems. Lately Network is joined PC or workstation by computers of high performance and low cost. Than it make intensive that Cluster system is resembled supercomputer. Unix, Linux, BSD, NT(Windows series) can use Cluster system OS(operating system). I'm chosen linux gain low cost, high performance and open technical documentation. This paper is benchmark performance of Beowulf clustering by UltraSPARC-1K(64bit-RISC processor). Benchmark tools use MPI(Message Passing Interface) and NetPIPE. Beowulf is a class of experimental parallel workstations developed to evaluate and characterize the design space of this new operating point in price-performance.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.582-594
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• 2004

In school PC labs or other educational purpose PC labs with a few dozens of PCs, computers are configured in a distributed architecture so that they are set up, maintained and upgraded separately. As an alternative to the distributed architecture, we can consider a thin-client computing environment. In a thin-client computing environment, client side devices provide mainly I/O functions with user friendly GUI and multimedia processing support whereas remote servers called terminal server provide computing power. In order to support many clients in the environment, a cluster of terminal servers can be configured. In this architecture, it is difficult due to the characteristics of terminal session persistence and different pattern of computing usage of users so that the utilization of terminal server resources becomes low. To overcome this disadvantage, we propose an adaptive terminal cluster where terminal servers ,ire partitioned into groups and a terminal server in a light-loaded group can be dynamically reassigned to a heavy-loaded group at run time. The proposed adaptive scheme is compared with a generic terminal service cluster and a group based non-adaptive terminal server cluster. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.383-394
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• 2013

As a way of augmenting constrained resources of mobile devices such as CPU and memory, many works on mobile cloud computing (MCC), where mobile devices utilize remote resources of cloud services or PCs, have been proposed. Typically, in MCC, many nodes with different operating systems and platform and diverse mobile applications or services are located, and a central manager autonomously performs several management tasks to maintain a consistent level of MCC overall quality. However, as there are a larger number of nodes, mobile applications, and services subscribed by the mobile applications and their interactions are extremely increased, a traditional management method of MCC reveals a fundamental problem of degrading its overall performance due to overloaded management tasks to the central manager, i.e. a bottle neck phenomenon. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a clustering-based optimization method to solve performance-related problems on large-scaled MCC and to stabilize its overall quality. With our proposed method, we can ensure to minimize the management overloads and stabilize the quality of MCC in an active and autonomous way.