• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.252-257
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• 2001

With the help of newly arrived technology such as PC clustering, molecular dynamics (MD) seems to be promising for large-scale materials simulations. A cost-effective cluster is set up using commodity PCs connected over Ethernet with fast switching devices and free software Linux. Executing MD simulations in the parallel sessions makes it possible to carry out large-scale materials simulations at acceptable computation time and costs. In this study, the MD computer code for fracture simulation is modified to comply with MPI (Message Passing Interface) specification, and runs on the PC cluster in parallel mode flawlessly. It is noted that PC clusters can provide a rather inexpensive high-performance computing environment comparing to supercomputers, if properly arranged.

• 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:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.639-646
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• 2002

In this paper, we discuss the system configuration and the design issues of CATS-i, a set of installation and administration tools for Linux cluster systems. CATS-i enables users to manage cluster systems easily, quickly, and safety. It integrates many functions, ranging from installing operating systems and applications to real-time monitoring and management of various important resources. In addition, batch job submission and management are included. These functions support a single system image. Finally, a powerful graphic user interface based on Java lets users quickly understand the cluster status and conveniently use the CATS-i on the Web.

• Journal of Software Engineering Society
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.63-67
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• 2012

According to the growth of data being generated in man fields, a distributed programming model MapReduce has been introduced to handle it. In this paper, we build two cluster system with Solaris and Linux environment on SUN Blade150 respectively and then to evaluate the performance of a MapReduce application running on MapReduce middleware Hadoop in terms of its average elapse time and standard deviation. As a result of this experiment, we show that the overall performance of the MapReduce application based on Hadoop is affected by the configuration of the cluster system.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.16-25
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• 2003

A parallel computing environment based on Windows operating system was constructed and a performance test was mode in comparison with Linux based systems. The Windows 2000 cluster was composed with servers and clients connected by Fast-ethernet, within which two sub-clusters may operates together or separately. Compaq Visual Fortran complier and two MPI libraries, MPICH.NT.1.2.2 and NT-MPICHNT.1.2 were installed as computing tools. Parallel computing performance tests were carried out using two-dimensional preconditioned Navier-Stokes code to examine the dependency on the number of processors, problem size and MPI libraries, those were compared with results from Linux clusters. Results shows that a cluster based on the user-friendly Windows operating system is also useful for the parallel computing and has good performance comparable to the previous Linux clusters.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.88-88
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• 2000

As more and more critical commercial applications move on the Internet, providing highly available servers becomes increasingly important. One of the advantages of a clustered system is that it has hardware and software redundancy. High availability can be provided by detecting node or daemon failure and reconfiguring the system appropriately so that the workload can be taken over bi the remaining nodes in the cluster. This paper presents how to provide the guaranteeing high availability of clustering web server. The load balancer becomes a single failure point of the whole system. In order to prevent the failure of the load balancer, we setup a backup server using heartbeat, fake, mon, and checkpointing fault-tolerance method. For high availability of file servers in the cluster, we setup coda file system. Coda is a advanced network fault-tolerance distributed file system.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.92-100
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• 2000

At the end of 1999. the TeraCluster project has started in the KORDIC Supercomputer center to study PC clusters for parallel computing. The aim is to replace the Cray T3E with a new cluster system in 2002. The PC cluster without a fast network is well suited for applications which do not require large amount of global communications. Since CFD problems are not very communication intensive, whole test cluster may be efficiently used. As an example of practical CFD simulations. the flow past the ONERA M6 wing and the flow past infinite wing are simulated on a cluster of Linux workstations.

• Journal of Korean Society of Coastal and Ocean Engineers
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2007

In this study 8 nodes parallel linux cluster system is constructed and tested for the evaluation of computational efficiency and reliability of the Yellow Sea tidal hydrodynamics prior to compute storm surge inundation along the west coast of the Korean Peninsular. Computational efficiency increases up to 7 times based on NPB bench-marking test. Simulated results by pADCIRC on reproduction of the Yellow Sea tidal hydrodynamics resemble well with previous studies. According to model parameter tests, bottom friction coefficient, which should be appropriately represented shallow depth along the west coast, is essential factor in simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.29-35
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• 2008

For efficient message passing of Parallel programs, it is required to schedule the involved two processes at the same time which are executed on different nodes, that is called 'co-scheduling' However, each node of cluster systems is built on top of general purpose multitasking OS. which autonomously manages local Processes. Thus it is not so easy to co-schedule two (or more) processes in such computing environment. Our work proposes a co-scheduling scheme for MPI-based parallel programs which exploits message exchange information between two parties. We implement the scheme on Linux cluster which requires slight kernel hacking and MPI library modification. The experiment with NPB parallel suite shows that our scheme results in 33-56% reduction in the execution time compared to the typical scheduling case. and especially better Performance in more communication-bound applications.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.367-374
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• 2001

Recently, LINUX cluster file systems based on the storage area network (SAN) have been developed. In those systems, without using a central file server, multiple clients sharing the whole disk storage through Fibre Channel can freely access disk storage and act as file servers. Accordingly, they can offer advantages such as availability, load balancing, and scalability. In this paper, we describe metadata management schemes designed for a new SAN-based LINUX cluster file system. First, we present a new inode structure which is better than previous ones in disk block access time. Second, a new directory structure which uses extendible hashing is described. Third, we describe a novel scheme to manage free disk blocks, which is suitable for very large file systems. Finally, we present how we handle metadata journaling. Through performance evaluation, we show that our proposed schemes have better performance than previous ones.