• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.31 no.12
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• pp.673-681
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• 2004

As the use of digital videos is getting popular, there is an increasing demand for efficient browsing and retrieval of video. To support such operations, effective video indexing should be incorporated. One of the most fundamental steps in video indexing is to parse video stream into shots and scenes. Generally, it takes long time to parse a video due to the huge amount of computation in a traditional single computing environment. Previous studies had widely used Round Robin scheduling which basically allocates tasks to each slave for a time interval of one quantum. This scheduling is difficult to adapt in a heterogeneous environment. In this paper, we propose two different parallel parsing algorithms which are Size-Adaptive Round Robin and Dynamic Size-Adaptive Round Robin for the heterogeneous distributed computing environments. In order to show their performance, we perform several experiments and show some of the results.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.319-328
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• 2000

The Message-Passing Interface(MPI) is a standard interface for parallel programming environment, based on that application programs run on the processors of a parallel computer. Processor nodes execute processes consisting the program by passing messages to one another. During executing, however, if a fault occurs on a processor node or a process, this will result an inconsistent state, and consequently, the whole program will have to be stopped. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant message passing interface(FT-MPI) by adding a fault manager module to MPI. The proposed FT-MPI does not need any hardware support, and each application program based on MPI can run on the FT-MPI without any modification. The proposed fault tolerance scheme uses the so-called hot-spare process duplication method, and verified by simulations that application programs run despite of any fault with less than 5% overhead on execution time.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.775-787
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• 2010

Unlike general-purpose CPUs, the GPUs have been specialized as many-core streaming processors, and are frequently replacing the CPUs in an increasing range of computations thanks to their outstanding parallel computing capacity. In order to respond to such trend, NVIDIA has recently issued a new parallel computing architecture called CUDA(Compute Unified Device Architecture), offering a flexible GPU programming environment for GPGPU(General Purpose GPU) computing. In general, when programmers use the CUDA API, they should clearly understand many aspects of GPU's computing architecture to produce efficient parallel software. In this article, we explain several optimization techniques for CUDA programming that we have verified through a lot of experiment and trial and error, and review how those techniques affect the performance of code execution. In particular, we use a specific problem as an example to analyze several elements that affect performances, such as effective accesses to hierarchical memory system, processor occupancy, and latency hiding. In conclusion, we present several directions that may be utilized effectively in CUDA-based parallel programming.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.649-653
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• 2020

GPS is a representative satellite navigation system that provides users with accurate location and time information. GPS L1 C / A is opened for civilian and thus utilized in various fields. When the satellite signal reaches the receiver, signal acquisition unit of the digital signal processing hardware searches and acquires the signal among visible satellites. The signal acquisition unit has different implementation methods depending on the signal searching method, such as serial search acquisition, parallel frequency search, parallel code phase search. In this paper, we compare and analyze the three representative acquisition hardwares using live GPS L1 C/A signals. According to the comparison, the parallel code phase search acquisition outperforms the other methods due to reduction of the number of the searchings and a high resolution.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.1_2
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• pp.129-139
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• 2003

The PC cluster architecture is considered as a cost-effective alternative to the existing supercomputers for realizing a high-performance information retrieval (IR) system. To implement an efficient IR system on a PC cluster, it is essential to achieve maximum parallelism by having the data appropriately distributed to the local hard disks of the PCs in such a way that the disk I/O and the subsequent computation are distributed as evenly as possible to all the PCs. If the terms in the inverted index file can be classified to closely related clusters, the parallelism can be maximized by distributing them to the PCs in an interleaved manner. One of the goals of this research is the development of methods for automatically clustering the terms based on the likelihood of the terms' co-occurrence in the same query. Also, in this paper, we propose a method for duplicate distribution of inverted index records among the PCs to achieve fault-tolerance as well as dynamic load balancing. Experiments with a large corpus revealed the efficiency and effectiveness of our method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.14A no.2
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• pp.99-106
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• 2007

Grid computing, a mechanism which uses heterogeneous systems that are geographically distributed, draws attention as a new paradigm for the next generation operation of parallel and distributed computing. The importance of grid computing concerning communication cost is very huge because grid computing furnishes uses with integrated virtual computing service, in which a number of computer systems are connected by a high-speed network. Therefore, to reduce the execution time, the scheduling algorithm in grid environment should take communication cost into consideration as well as computing ability of resources. However, most scheduling algorithms have not only ignored the communication cost by assuming that all tasks were dealt in one cluster, but also did not consider the overhead of communication cost when the tasks were processed in a number of clusters. In this paper, the functions of original scheduling algorithms are analyzed. More importantly, the functions of algorithms are compared and analyzed with consideration of communication cost within the co allocation environment, in which a task is performed separately in many clusters.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.10-18
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• 2007

Mobile communication devices such as PDAs, cellular phones, etc., need to perform several kinds of computation-intensive functions including H.264 encoding/decoding and 3D graphics processing. In this paper, new reconfigurable architecture is described, which can perform either motion estimation for H.264 or rendering for 3D graphics. The proposed motion estimation techniques use new efficient SAD computation ordering, DAU, and FDVS algorithms. The new approach can reduce the computation by 70% on the average than that of JM 8.2, without affecting the quality. In 3D rendering, midline traversal algorithm is used for parallel processing to increase throughput. Memories are partitioned into 8 blocks so that 2.4Mbits (47%) of memory is shared and selective power shutdown is possible during motion estimation and 3D graphics rendering. Processing elements are also shared to further reduce the chip area by 7%.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.732-736
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• 2010

Processing a large amount of data becomes more important than ever. Particularly, the information queries which require multi-dimensional record scan can be efficiently implemented with SIMD instruction sets. In this article, we present a SIMD record scan technique which employs row-based scanning. Our technique is different from existing SIMD techniques for predicate processes and aggregate operations. Those techniques apply SIMD instructions to the attributes in the same column of the database, exploiting the column-based record organization of the in-memory database systems. Whereas, our SIMD technique is useful for multi-dimensional record scanning. As the sizes of registers and the memory become larger, our row-based SIMD scan can have bigger impact on the performance. Moreover, since our technique is orthogonal to the parallelization techniques for multi-core processors, it can be applied to both uni-processors and multi-core processors without too many changes in the software architectures.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.160-163
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• 2015

워크플로우 매니지먼트시스템은 오늘날의 어플리케이션들의 처리를 위한 효율적인 워크플로우 설계와 수행을 가능하게 한다. 그러나 전체물리학, 생물학, 지질학과 같이 과학탐구에 목적을 둔 어플리케이션들의 경우 대용량의 데이터를 연산해야 하기 때문에 단일 컴퓨팅 자원으로는 단 시간내에 작업을 완료하기 어렵다. 클라우드 환경에서 워크플로우를 효율적으로 수행하기 위해서는 여러 자원을 효율적으로 활용하기 위한 분산 병렬처리가 필수적이다. 일반적으로 시스템의 마스터노드에서는 클러스터의 원격노드들에게 어플리케이션 수행을 위해 설계된 워크플로우에 맞게 작업들을 분배하게 되는데 이때 마스터노드와 원격노드의 큐에서의 대기시간과 원격노드에서 할당된 작업들을 위한 스케줄링 시간은 성능을 좋지 않게 만드는 원인이 된다. 따라서 본 논문은 클라우드 환경에서 원격노드에서 작업수행이전까지의 지연시간을 줄이기 위한 최적화 방법으로 컴퓨팅 자원 활용도를 고려한 작업들의 병합 기법을 적용해서 워크플로우의 처리 속도를 향상시킨다.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.240-248
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• 2003

The Monte Carlo calculation is the most accurate means of predicting radiation dose, but its accuracy is accompanied by an increase in the amount of time required to produce a statistically meaningful dose distribution. In this study, the effects on calculation time by introducing variance reduction techniques and increasing computing power, respectively, in the Monte Carlo dose calculation for a 6 MV photon beam from the Varian 600 C/D were estimated when maintaining accuracy of the Monte Carlo calculation results. The EGSnrc­based BEAMnrc code was used to simulate the beam and the EGSnrc­based DOSXYZnrc code to calculate dose distributions. Variance reduction techniques in the codes were used to describe reduced­physics, and a computer cluster consisting of ten PCs was built to execute parallel computing. As a result, time was more reduced by the use of variance reduction techniques than that by the increase of computing power. Because the use of the Monte Carlo dose calculation in clinical practice is yet limited by reducing the computational time only through improvements in computing power, introduction of reduced­physics into the Monte Carlo calculation is inevitable at this point. Therefore, a more active investigation of existing or new reduced­physics approaches is required.