• Ocean and Polar Research
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.173-179
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• 2001

Parallel supercomputing is now a must for oceanographic numerical modelers. Most of today's parallel numerical schemes use synchronous algorithms, where some processors that have finished their tasks earlier than others must wait at synchronization points for correct computation. Hence, the load balancing is a crucial factor, however, it is, in general, difficult to achieve on heterogeneous workstation clusters. We devise an asynchronous algorithm that reduces the idle times of faster processors, and discuss application of the algorithm to some grid problems and implementation on a workstation cluster using Message Passing Interface (MPI).

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.617-630
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• 1996

In this paper, a shared-concurrent file system (S-CFS) is designed and implemented using conventional disks as disk arrays on a Workstation Cluster which can be used as a small-scale server. Since it is implemented on UNIX operating systems, S_CFS is not only portable and flexible but also efficient in resource usage because it does not require additional I/O nodes. The result of the research shows that on small-scale systems with enough disks, the performance of the concurrent file system on transaction processing applications is bounded by the bottleneck of CPUs computing powers while the performance of the concurrent file system on massive data I/Os is bounded by the time required to copy data between buffers. The concurrent file system,which has been implemented on a Workstation Cluster with 8 disks,shows a throughput of 388 tps in case of transaction processing applications and can provide the bandwidth of 15.8 Mbytes/sec in case of massive data processing applications. Moreover,the concurrent file system has been dsigned to enhance the throughput of applications requirring high performance I/O by controlling the paralleism of the concurrent file system on user's side.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.183-194
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• 2002

The clustering environment with heterogeneous workstations provides the cost effectiveness and usability for executing applications in parallel. Load balancing is considered a necessary feature for a cluster of heterogeneous workstations to minimize the turnaround time. Previously, static load balancing that assigns a predetermined weight for the processing capability of each workstation, or dynamic approaches which execute a benchmark program to get relative processing capability of each workstation were proposed. The execution of the benchmark program, which has nothing to do with the application being executed, consumes the computation time and the overall turnaround time is delayed. In this paper, we present efficient methods for task distribution and task migration, based on the relative load index. We designed and implemented a load balancing system for the clustering environment with heterogeneous workstations. Turnaround times of our methods and the round-robin approach, as well as the load balancing method using a benchmark program, were compared. The experimental results show that our methods outperform all the other methods that we compared.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.1221-1230
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• 1997

In this study, the performance of a parallel file system(N-PFS), which is inplemented using conventional disks as disk arrays on a Workstation Cluster, is analyzed by using analytical method and adtual values in experiments.N-PFS can be used as high-performance file sever in small-scale server systems and effciently pro-cess massive data I/Os such as multimedia and scientifid data. In this paper, an analytical model was suggested and the correctness of the suggested was verified by analyzing the experimental values on a system.The result of the appropriate stping unit for processing massive data of the Workstation Cluster with 8 disks is 64-128Kbytes and the maximum throughput on it is 15.8 Mbytes/ses.In addition, the performance of parallel file system on massive data is bounded by the time required to copy data between buffers.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.20-25
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• 2016

The parallel computer cluster system has been known as the powerful tool to solve a complex physical phenomenon numerically. The numerical analysis of large size of Li-ion battery pack, which has a complex physical phenomenon, requires a large amount of computing time. In this study, the numerical analyses were conducted for comparing the computing efficiency between the single workstation and the parallel cluster system both with multicore CPUs'. The result shows that the parallel cluster system took the time 80 times faster than the single work station for the same battery pack model. The performance of cluster system was increased linearly with more CPU cores being increased.

• 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.

• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.63-74
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• 2006

A molecular docking is thc process of reducing an unmanageable number of compounds to a limited number of compounds for the target of interest by means of computational simulation. And it is one of a large scale scientific application that requires large computing power and data storage capability. Previous applications or software for molecular docking were developed to be run on a supercomputer, a workstation, or a cluster computer. However the virtual screening using a supercomputer has a problem that a supercomputer is very expensive and the virtual screening using a workstation or a cluster-computer requires a long execution time. Thus we propose Grid service based molecular docking application. We designed a resource broker and a data broker for supporting efficient molecular docking service and developed various services for molecular docking.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 1998.03a
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• pp.246-249
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• 1998

In the present study, domain decomposition using the substructuring method is developed for the computational efficiency of the finite element analysis of metal forming processes. In order to avoid calculation of an inverse matrix during the substructuring procedure, the modified Cholesky decomposition method is implemented. As obtaining the data independence by the substructuring method, the program is easily parallelized using the Parallel Virtual Machine(PVM) library on a workstation cluster connected on networks. A numerical example for a simple upsetting is calculated and the speed-up ratio with respect to various domain decompositions and number of processors. Comparing the results, it is concluded that the improvement of performance is obtained through the proposed method.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.29-42
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• 1999

은행이나 증권시장 혹은 통신 분야와 같은 온라인 트랜잭션처리 (OLTP) 응용 분야들이 계속 증가하고 있으며 그 규모와 복잡성은 매년 405에서 50% 이상 증가하고 있는 것으로 평가되고 있다. 이러한 복잡한 OLTP 응용분야들은 한 대의 개인용 컴퓨터나 워크스테이션으로는 처리가 불가능하며, 슈퍼 컴퓨터나 MPP와 같은 고성능의 컴퓨터를 이용하는 경우에는 방대한 예산이 소요될 것이다. 본 논문에서는 데이터를 공유하는 워크스테이션 클러스터에서 트랜잭션을 병렬로 처리할 수 있는 고성능 트랜잭션처리 시스템인 PHLOX를개발한다. PHLOX는 네트워크 파일 시스템을 이용하여 데이터를 공유함으로써 확장성이 뛰어나며 각 워크스테이션의 메모리 버퍼간에 직접 데이터 전송을 지원함으로써 디스크 액세스빈도수를 줄일 수 있다는 장점을 갖는다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.35 no.6
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• pp.237-247
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• 2008

A virtual screening is the process of reducing an unmanageable number of compounds to a limited number of compounds for the target of interest by means of computational techniques such as molecular docking. And it is one of a large-scale scientific application that requires large computing power and data storage capability. Previous applications or softwares for molecular docking such as AutoDock, FlexX, Glide, DOCK, LigandFit, ViSION were developed to be run on a supercomputer, a workstation, or a cluster-computer. However the virtual screening using a supercomputer has a problem that a supercomputer is very expensive and the virtual screening using a workstation or a cluster-computer requires a long execution time. Thus we propose a service-based virtual screening system using Grid computing technology which supports a large data intensive operation. We constructed 3-dimensional chemical molecular database for virtual screening. And we designed a resource broker and a data broker for supporting efficient molecular docking service and proposed various services for virtual screening. We implemented service based virtual screening system with DOCK 5.0 and Globus 3.2 toolkit. Our system can reduce a timeline and cost of drug or new material design.