• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.616-618
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• 2002

최근에는 고성능 네트웍으로 구성된 클러스터 상에서 사용자 수준 통신을 사용하는 소프트웨어 분산 공유메모리 시스템의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자수준 프로토콜의 표준인 Virtual Interface Architecture(VIA)를 사용하고 확장성 있는 Home-based Lazy release Consistency(HLRC) 모델을 기반으로 하는 소프트웨어 분산공유메모리 시스템을 구현한다. 본 시스템은 VIA의 원격 메모리 쓰기 기능을 최대한 활용하며, 통신 과정에서 통신 버퍼와 사용자 메모리 사이의 복사가 일어나지 않도록 설계되어 높은 성능을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10c
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• pp.650-652
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• 2000

클러스터 컴퓨팅에서 성능 개선의 한계점으로 인식되는 것은 클러스터 내의 통신 서브시스템(communication subsystem)이다. 이러한 한계점을 해결하기 위해서 사용자 수준 통신프로토콜이 제안되었고 Microsoft, Compaq, Intel 3사에 의해서 표준화되었다. 본 논문에서는 사용자 수준 통신의 산업계 표준으로 선정된 Virtual Interface Architecture(VIA)[1]의 개요에 대해서 알아보고, VIA를 효과적으로 구현한 KVIA(Kaist-VIA)에 대해 기술한다.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.2 no.9
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• pp.1239-1244
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• 2001

The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is usually suggested as a new standard high-performance communication of the cluster systems. However the VIA specification aims for platform independence, the current Intel VI Provider Library (VIPL) design favors systems with Intel architecture processors running the Windows operating system (OS). This paper aims for clarifying the guesstion problem of VIA and VIPL in the newtrul time of CPU Architecture and OS further more, It suggests the solution aiming the communication in the other CPU or OS

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.23.1-28
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• 1999

InterSpaceTM is an advanced networked virtual reality system that presents shared three-dimensional computer graphics (CG) worlds via the Internet where multiple users can enjoy synchronous communications with voice, video and text. Users can control their avatars as a surrogate interface. In InterSpace users can walk around and interact with other people and interact with contents. In this paper, we describe the function-distributed architecture used in InterSpace. The architecture enables flexible configuration of server functions and load distribution. It also allows users to select media and client PCs to switch servers dynamically.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.229-244
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• 1997

Realization of the economical, reliable, and efficient ATM interface block becomes an important key to development of the ATM switching system when we consider new issues raised recently. In this paper, we summarize requirements for the ATM interface block and present the UNI (User Network Interface)/NNI (Network Node Interface) architecture to meet these requirements. We also evaluate the performance of the multiplexer adopting the various multiplexing schemes and service disciplines. For ATM UNI/NNI interface technologies, we have developed a new policing device using the priority encoding scheme. It can reduce the decision time for policing significantly. We have also designed a new spacer that can space out the clumped cell stream almost perfectly. This algorithm guarantees more than 99 % conformance to the negotiated peak cell rate. Finally, we propose the interface architecture for accommodation of the ABR (Available Bit Rate) transfer capability. The proposed structure that performs virtual source and virtual destination functions as well as a switch algorithm can efficiently accommodate the ABR service.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.4C
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• pp.326-332
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• 2002

To transfer the large size of data more quickly among cluster nodes, the lightweight messaging scheme has been developed. VIA(Virtual Interface Architecture) allows that user can directly communicate with network devices without any interference of kernel and has become a communication protocol for clusters. But one must spend a lot of time to be skillful with it because of difficulties of programming. Therefore, we propose an easier library called EVIL(Easy-to-use Virtual Interface Library) that developers can easily deal with. We evaluated the performance of EVIL, Native VIA, TCP/IP respectively.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.699-722
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• 2019

It is difficult to observe the potential risks of lifting or turn-over operations in the early stages before a real operation. Therefore, many dynamic simulations have been designed to predict the risks and to reduce the possibility of accidents. These simulations, however, have usually been performed for predetermined and fixed scenarios, so they do not reflect the real-time control of an operator that is one of the most important influential factors in an operation; additionally, lifting or turn-over operations should be a collaboration involving more than two operators. Therefore, this study presents an integrated method for a collaborative simulation that allows multiple workers to operate together in the virtual world. The proposed method is composed of four components. The first component is a dynamic analysis that is based on multibody-system dynamics. The second component is VR (virtual reality) for the generation of realistic views for the operators. The third component comprises the control devices and the scenario generator to handle the crane in the virtual environment. Lastly, the fourth component is the HLA (high-level architecture)-based integrated simulation interface for the convenient and efficient exchange of the data through the middleware. To show the applicability of the proposed method, it has been applied to a block turn-over simulation for which one floating crane and two crawler cranes were used, and an offshore module installation for which a DCR (dual-crane rig) was used. In conclusion, the execution of the proposed method of this study is successful regarding the above two applications for which multiple workers were involved.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.5_6
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• pp.371-378
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• 2004

This paper presents the implementation and performance of the HVIA-GE card, which is a hardware implementation of the Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) based on Gigabit Ethernet. The HVIA-GE card is a 32-bit/33MHz PCI adapter containing an FPGA for the VIA protocol engine and a Gigabit Ethernet chip set to construct a high performance physical network. HVIA-GE performs virtual-to-physical address translation, Doorbell, and send/receive completion operations in hardware without kernel intervention. In particular, the Address Translation Table (ATT) is stored on the local memory of the HVIA-GE card, and the VIA protocol engine efficiently controls the address translation process by directly accessing the ATT. As a result, the communication overhead during send/receive transactions is greatly reduced. Our experimental results show the maximum bandwidth of 93.7MB/s and the minimum latency of 11.9${\mu}\textrm{s}$. In terms of minimum latency HVIA-GE performs 4.8 times and 9.9 times faster than M-VIA and TCP/IP, respectively, over Gigabit Ethernet. In addition, the maximum bandwidth of HVIA-GE is 50.4% and 65% higher than M-VIA and TCP/IP respectively.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.45-51
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• 2007

Space planning is one of the popular applications of VR technology including interior design, architecture design, and factory layout. In order to provide easier methods to accommodate physical objects into virtual space planning task, we suggest applying mixed reality (MR) interface. We describe our hardware and software of our MR system designed according to requirements of the application domain. In brief, our system hardware consists of a video see-through display with a touch screen interface, mounted on a mobile platform, and we use screen space 3D manipulations to arrange virtual objects within the MR scene. Investigating the interface with our prototype implementation, we are convinced that our system will help users to design spaces in more easy and effective way.

• 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.