• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.1-10
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• 2013

1980년대와 1990년대가 서버와 데스크톱 중심 컴퓨팅의 시대였다고 한다면 2000년대 들어 모바일 분야를 포함하는 임베디드 프로세서 시장이 급격히 확장되며 임베디드 중심 시대로 산업구조가 재편되고 있다. 그리고, 2010년대에는 임베디드 프로세서 시장이 더욱 확대되고 기술도 더불어 발전되고 있는데, 최근 기술을 주도하고 있는 뜨거운 용어 중의 하나가 이기종 멀티코어 컴퓨팅이라 할 수 있다. 시장이 요구하는 고성능 컴퓨팅을 수용하고 임베디드 기기의 특성상 저전력을 실현해야 하는 현실적 문제를 해결하기 위한 이기종 멀티코어 하드웨어가 임베디드 기기에도 적용을 앞다투고 있는 상황이며, 적절한 응용 콘텐츠에 맞춰 이기종 멀티코어 하드웨어를 활용하기 위한 소프트웨어에 대한 관심과 발전도 발 맞춰 진행되고 있다. 이에 본고에서는 임베디드 기기 분야에 한정하여 이기종 멀티코어 하드웨어와 소프트웨어의 기술 동향을 살펴보고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.13-21
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• 2013

Recently, although the number of cores on a chip multi-processor increases, multi-programming or multi-threaded programming techniques to utilize the whole cores are still insufficient. Therefore, there inevitably exist some idle cores which are not working. This results in a waste of the caches, so-called idle caches which are dedicated to those idle cores. In this research, we propose amethodology to exploit idle caches effectively as victimcaches of on-chip memory resource. In simulation results, we have achieved 19.4%and 10.2%IPC improvement in 4-core and 16-core respectively, compared to previous technique.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.180-183
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• 2013

근래의 프로세서는 하나의 다이 위에 여러 개의 코어를 배치한 멀티코어 형태를 띠고 있다. 최근에는 프로세서의 에너지 소비량을 줄이기 위해 비대칭 멀티코어를 활용하여 동일한 성능을 유지하며 소비전력을 낮추는 방법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 비대칭 멀티코어의 장점을 최대한 활용하기 위해서는 대칭형 멀티코어와는 달리 실행해야 할 프로세스와 상이한 코어간의 작동 특성을 고려해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 전력 소비 효율 향상을 위해 프로세스 스케줄링 알고리즘에 하이브리드 인공지능 기술인 Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS)를 적용하여 각 프로세스에 적합한 코어를 찾아 할당하는 방법을 제안한다. 시뮬레이션 결과 제안하는 프로세스 스케줄러는 리눅스의 CFS 대비 평균 35.4% 낮은 Energy Delay Product (EDP)를 보였으며 이를 통해 하이브리드 인공지능을 적용한 프로세스 스케줄링 알고리즘의 유효성을 입증하였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.11-19
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• 2021

In this paper, we proposed an asymmetric multi-core processor scheduling scheme which is based on the mileage of each core. We considered a big-LITTLE multi-core processor structure, which consists of low power consuming LITTLE cores with general performance and high power consuming big cores with high performance. If a task needs to be processed, the processor decides a core type (big or LITTLE) to handle the task, and then investigate the core with the shortest mileage among unoccupied cores. Then assigns the task to the core. We developed a mileage-based balancing algorithm for asymmetric multi-core assignment and showed that the proposed scheduling scheme is more cost-effective compared to the traditional scheme from a management perspective. Simulation is also conducted for the purpose of performance evaluation of our proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.350-352
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• 2011

마이크로 프로세서의 퍼포먼스 카운터는 프로그램의 병목 현상을 분석할 수 있는 중요한 도구이다. 퍼포먼스 카운터를 사용하면 다양한 이벤트의 출현 빈도를 성능의 저하 없이 정확하게 측정할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 특히 퍼포먼스 카운터는 현재 널리 사용되고 있는 멀티코어 프로세서의 성능을 분석하는데 유효하다. 본 논문에서는 인텔 네할렘 프로세서의 확장된 퍼포먼스 카운터를 이용하여 멀티코어 프로세서의 성능을 분석하는 기법을 소개하고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 네할렘 아키텍쳐를 적용한 인텔 Xeon 시리즈 프로세서와 SPEC CPU 2006벤치마크를 이용하여 성능을 분석한다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.251-256
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• 2017

Recently, multicore processor system is widely adopted not only in general purpose computers but also in embedded systems and mobile devices in order to improve performance. Since the power dissipation issue of multicore processor system is very significant, it must be estimated accurately in the early design stage. In this paper, a fast power analysis tool for a high performance multicore processor based on the trace-driven simulator has been developed. To achieve it, the power dissipation of each hardware unit per core are added. Using SPEC 2000 benchmarks as input, the trace-driven simulation has been performed to estimate the average power dissipation per instruction.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.768-772
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• 2008

Today's microprocessor normally includes several processing cores to reduce the energy consumption without losing performance. In this paper, data transfer ordering mechanism can be efficiently used for cache coherence solution in unidirectional ring interconnect. RING-DATA ORDER combines the simplicity of GREEDY-ORDER and the performance of RING-ORDER. RING-DATA ORDER can be easily applicable to multicore processor with unidirectional ring interconnect.

• Journal of Platform Technology
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.3-9
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• 2022

In this paper, to maximize the performance of the scatter communication in multi-core and many-core processors, a technique that considers the communication situation of the processing node is applied to a multi-core processor composed of 32 processing nodes. Since the existing scatter algorithm cannot recognize the communication conditions of the processing nodes, communication is generally performed according to an initially set transmission order. In this case, scatter communication starts only after the communication currently being performed by all processing nodes inside the processor is finished. The scatter communication performance was improved by this technique, and it was confirmed that there was a performance improvement of up to 78.93% compared to the existing algorithm through BFM simulation.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2011

Recently, as mobile multimedia devices are used more and more, the needs for high-performance and low-energy multimedia processors are increasing. Application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) can meet the needed high performance for mobile multimedia, but they provide limited, if any, generality needed for various application requirements. DSP based systems can used for various types of applications due to their generality, but they require higher cost and energy consumption as well as less performance than ASICs. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) based many-core processor which supports high-performance and low-power image data processing while keeping generality. The proposed SIMD based many-core processor composed of 16 processing elements (PEs) exploits large data parallelism inherent in image data processing. Experimental results indicate that the proposed SIMD-based many-core processor higher performance (22 times better), energy efficiency (7 times better), and area efficiency (3 times better) than conversional commercial high-performance processors.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.39-49
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• 2019

Recently, CPU-GPU integrated heterogeneous multicore processors have been widely used for improving the performance of computing systems. Heterogeneous multicore processors integrate CPUs and GPUs on a single chip where CPUs and GPUs share the LLC(Last Level Cache). This causes a serious cache contention problem inside the processor, resulting in significant performance degradation. In this paper, we propose the partitioned LLC architecture to solve the cache contention problem in heterogeneous multicore processors. We analyze the performance impact varying the LLC size of CPUs and GPUs, respectively. According to our simulation results, the bigger the LLC size of the CPU, the CPU performance improves by up to 21%. However, the GPU shows negligible performance difference when the assigned LLC size increases. In other words, the GPU is less likely to lose the performance when the LLC size decreases. Because the performance degradation due to the LLC size reduction in GPU is much smaller than the performance improvement due to the increase of the LLC size of the CPU, the overall performance of heterogeneous multicore processors is expected to be improved by applying partitioned LLC to CPUs and GPUs. In addition, if we develop a memory management technique that can maximize the performance of each core in the future, we can greatly improve the performance of heterogeneous multicore processors.