• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.91-97
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• 2021

A microserver is a type of a computing server, in which two or more CPU nodes are implemented on a separate computing board, and a plurality of computing boards are integrated on a main board. In building a cluster system, the microserver has advantages in several points such as energy efficiency, area occupied, and ease of management compared to the existing method of mounting legacy servers in multiple racks. In addition, since the microserver uses a fast interconnection network between CPU nodes, performance improvement for data transfers is expected. The proposed microserver can mount a total of 16 computing boards with 4 CPU nodes on the main board, and uses Serial-RapidIO (SRIO) as an interconnection network. In order to analyze the performance of the proposed microserver in terms of the interconnection network which is a core performance issue of the microserver, we compare and quantify the performance of commercial microservers. As a result of the test, it showed up to about 7 times higher bandwidth improvement when transmitting data using the interconnection network. In addition, with CloudSuite benchmark programs used in actual cloud computing, maximum 60% reduction in execution time was obtained compared to commercial microservers with similar CPU performance specification.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.49-58
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• 2014

마이크로프로세서 기술의 발전으로 멀티코어 저전력 x86 및 ARM CPU 기반의 마이크로서버가 출현하였다. 초기 마이크로서버는 기존 서버보다 작은 크기에 단순 집적도를 높인 구조에서 내 외부 스위치와 스토리지, 관리, 내부 연결망까지 기존의 랙 시스템을 대체 할 마이크로서버가 시장에 출시되고 있다. 특히 마이크로서버 시장에 ARM 프로세서의 가세로 x86 프로세서와 치열한 경쟁이 예상되고 있다. 본고를 통하여 마이크로서버의 특징과 시장, 제품 등에 관해서 살펴보도록 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2017.01a
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• pp.1-2
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• 2017

IT 융합서비스의 발전은 각종 대용량 미디어 컨텐츠의 폭발적인 수요를 요구하면서 저전력 고집적 서버인 마이크로서버에 대한 수요가 증가하고 있으며 기존 서버 패러다임을 효과적으로 개선하기 위한 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 마이크로서버 시스템의 기능적, 구조적 구성 방안을 제시하기 위한 실행 Task 패턴에 따른 마이크로서버 시스템 성능비교 연구를 제안하여 요구에 맞는 적합한 네트워크 구조 및 구성에 따른 전체 인프라 개선에 대한 기준 결과를 제시한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.85-91
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• 2023

In order to utilize KOSMOS, the performance evaluation results are presented in this paper with CloudSuite, an application service-based benchmark program in the cloud computing area. CloudSuite offers several distinct applications as cloud services in two parts: offline applications and online applications on containers. In comparison with other microservers which have similar hardware specifications of KOSMOS, it was observed that KOSMOS was superior in all CloudSuite benchmark applications. KOSMOS also showed higher performance than Intel Xeon CPU-based servers in an offline application. KOSMOS reduced completion time during executing Graph Analytics by 30.3% and 72.3% compared to two Intel Xeon CPU-based servers in an experimental configuration of multiple nodes in KOSMOS.