• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.113-118
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• 2013

The current GPU virtualization techniques incur large overheads when executing application programs mainly due to the fine-grain time-sharing scheduling of the GPU among multiple Virtual Machines (VMs). Besides, the current techniques lack of portability, because they include the APIs for the GPU computations in the VM monitor. In this paper, we propose a low overhead and high performance GPU virtualization approach on a heterogeneous HPC system based on the open-source Xen. Our proposed techniques are tailored to the bio applications. In our virtualization framework, we allow a VM to solely occupy a GPU once the VM is assigned a GPU instead of relying on the time-sharing the GPU. This improves the performance of the applications and the utilization of the GPUs. Our techniques also allow a direct pass-through to the GPU by using the IOMMU virtualization features embedded in the hardware for the high portability. Experimental studies using microbiology genome analysis applications show that our proposed techniques based on the direct pass-through significantly reduce the overheads compared with the previous Domain0 based approaches. Furthermore, our approach closely matches the performance for the applications to the bare machine or rather improves the performance.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.1332-1338
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• 2015

Recently, growing attention has been paid to multi-GPU rendering to support real-time high-quality rendering at high resolution. In order to attain high performance in real-time multi-GPU rendering, great care needs to be taken to reduce the overhead of data transfer among GPUs and frame composition. This paper presents a novel multi-GPU algorithm that greatly enhances split frame rendering with implicit query-based synchronization. In order to support implicit synchronization in frame composition, we further present a message queue-based scheduling algorithm. We carried out an experiment to evaluate our algorithm, and found that our algorithm improved rendering performance up to 200% more than previously existing algorithms.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.9
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• pp.507-512
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• 2014

Recently, Distributed computing processing begins using both CPU(Central processing unit) and GPU(Graphic processing unit) to improve the performance to overcome darksilicon problem which cannot use all of the transistors because of the electric power limitation. There is an integrated graphics processor that CPU and GPU share memory and Last level cache(LLC). But, There is no LLC access rules between CPU and GPU, so if GPU and CPU processes run together at the same time, performance of both processes gets worse because of the contention on the LLC. This Paper gives evidence to prove the need of the Cache Partitioning and is mentioned about the cache partitioning design using page coloring to allocate the L3 Cache space only for the GPU process to guarantee GPU process performance.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.72-77
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• 2017

We calculated 3D frequency- and Laplace-domain wavefields using time-domain modeling and Fourier transform or Laplace transform. We adopted OpenACC and GPU for an efficient parallel calculation. The OpenACC makes it easy to use GPU accelerators by adding directives in conventional C, C++, and Fortran programming languages. Accordingly, one doesn't have to learn new GPGPU programming languages such as CUDA or OpenCL to use GPU. An OpenACC program allocates GPU memory, transfers data between the host CPU and GPU devices and performs GPU operations automatically or following user-defined directives. We compared performance of 3D wave propagation modeling programs using OpenACC and GPU to that using single-core CPU through numerical tests. Results using a homogeneous model and the SEG/EAGE salt model show that the OpenACC programs are approximately 53 and 30 times faster than those using single-core CPU.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.9-15
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• 2019

Since the computational complexity for hologram generation increases exponentially with respect to the size of the point cloud, parallel processing using CUDA and/or OpenCL library based on multiple GPUs has recently become popular. The CUDA kernel for parallelization needs to consist of threads, blocks, and grids properly in accordance with the number of cores and the memory size in the GPU. In addition, in case of multiple GPU environments, the distribution in grid-by-grid, in block-by-block, or in thread-by-thread is needed according to the number of GPUs. In order to evaluate the performance of CGH generation, we compared the computational speed in CPU, in single GPU, and in multi-GPU environments by gradually increasing the number of points in a point cloud from 10 to 1,000,000. We also present a memory structure design and a calculation method required in the CUDA-based parallel processing to accelerate the CGH (Computer Generated Hologram) generation operation in multiple GPU environments.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.196-199
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• 2009

높아지는 Graphic Processing Unit (GPU)의 연산 성능과 GPU에서의 범용 프로그래밍을 위한 개발 환경의 개발, 보급으로 인해 GPU를 일반연산에 활용하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이와같이 일반 연산에 활용되고 있는 GPU로 nVidia Tesla와 AMD/ATI의 FireStream 들이 있다. 특수목적 연산 장치인 GPU를 일반 연산을 위해 프로그래밍하기 위해서는 그에 맞는 프로그램 개발 환경이 필요한데 nVidia에서 개발한 CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) 환경은 자사의 GPU 프로그램 개발을 위해 제공되는 개발 환경이다. CUDA 개발 환경은 nVidia GPU 프로그래밍 뿐만 아니라 차세대 이종 병렬 프로그램 개발 환경의 공개 표준으로 논의되고 있는 OpenCL (Open Computing Language) 와 유사한 특징을 보일 것으로 예상되기 때문에 그 중요성은 특정 GPU 에만 국한되지 않는다. 본 논문에서는 경로 적분 몬테 카를로 (Path Integral Monte Carlo) 방법을 CUDA 개발 환경을 사용하여 nVidia GPU 상에서 병렬화한 결과를 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.4
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• pp.89-96
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• 2013

The graphic processor unit (GPU) has been developed to process not only graphic data but also general system data. It shows a better performance than CPU in algorithm for 3D graphics and parallel program. In order to execute algorithm for CPU on GPU, we should understand about GPU architectures and rewrite program considering parallel processing capability and new memory model of GPU. For this reasons, a performance prediction model for the algorithm and its predicted performance through GPU system are required. These can predict problems in GPU application development or construct a performance evaluation standard for GPU. In this paper, we applied the AES encryption algorithms on our performance model and accomplished performance prediction with high accuracy under a heavy workload.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.41-47
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• 2014

In this paper, we implemented a CUDA Fortran parallel program to run the CFD_NIMR model on GP-GPU's, which simulates air diffusion on urban terrains. A GP-GPU is graphic processing unit in the form of a PCI card, and a general calculation accelerator to perform a large amount of high speed calculations with low cost and electric power. The GP-GPU gives performance enhancement of speed by 15 times to compare the Nvidia Tesla C1060 GPU with Intel XEON 2.0 GHz CPU. In addition, the program on a GP-GPU shows efficient performance compared to an MPI parallel program on multiple CPU's. It is expected that a proposed programming method on the GP-GPU parallel program can be used for numerical models with a similar structure.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.13-15
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• 2012

매우 빠른 GPU의 성능과 저가의 개발 비용으로, 최신 GPU는 대용량 계산과학 분야에 꼭 필수적인 자원으로 등장하였다. 이 논문에서는 멀티-GPU 클러스터 시스템에서 GPU 컴퓨팅 기술을 적용한 대용량 Monte Carlo 알고리즘을 개발하였다. MPI와 CUDA를 동시에 적용한 결과 8개 GPU까지 병렬 확장성을 얻을 수 있었다. 병렬 성능 확장성 분석 결과, 멀티-GPU 클러스터에서는 GPU 사이의 데이터 통신이 전체 프로그램 성능 향상을 결정하는 매우 중요한 요인임을 보였다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.281-286
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• 2011

Data sorting is one of important pre-process to utilize huge data in modern society, but sorting spends a lot of time by sorting itself. In this paper, we presented hybrid sorting algorithm that splits array to sort concurrently in CPU and GPU. To do this, we decided most effective range of array based on hardware performance, then accomplished reducing whole sorting time by concurrent sorting on CPU and GPU. As shown in results of experiment, hybrid sorting improved about eight percent of sorting time in comparison with the sorting time using only GPU.