• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.115-118
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• 2014

트랜잭셔널 메모리는 다중 코어 시스템에서 lock 을 대체할 메모리 동기화 기법으로 소개되었다. 트랜잭셔널 메모리를 사용하는 시스템에서 같은 주소의 메모리에 동시에 접근하여 충돌이 일어난 트랜잭션은 충돌해결정책에 의해 유효화 될지 버려질지 선택된다. 기존의 트랜잭셔널 메모리는 고정된 충돌해결정책을 사용하여, 상황에 따라 가장 유리한 트랜잭션을 선택 해주지 못하는 한계가 있었다. 본 논문에서는 상황에 따라 여러 정책 중 유리한 충돌해결정책을 판단하여 적용시키는 방법을 제안한다. STAMP 벤치마크를 통한 시뮬레이션 결과, 제안하는 방법은 기존에 사용되는 Timestamp, Karma 충돌해결정책 대비 평균 22% 높은 성능 향상을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37B no.11
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• pp.1041-1049
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• 2012

The transactional memory was proposed to solve the problems of the conventional lock-based synchronization methods in the shared memory multiprocessor system. Various implementation methods for putting the high performance transactional memory to practical use have been continuously studied. However, these studies focus only on the commercialization and performance enhancement of the transactional memory. Besides, there have been few studies to analyze the system overhead of the transactional memory according to the conflict management policy. Thus this paper classifies hardware transactional memory, which is one kind of transactional memories, into four types according to the conflict management policy, and then compares and analyzes their performance and system bus traffic through their modeling and simulation. In addition, the most effective conflict management policy for the hardware transactional memory is presented through these comparison and analysis.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.18A no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2011

As era of multi-core processors has arrived, transactional memory has been considered as an effective method to achieve easy and fast multi-threaded programming. Various hardware transactional memory systems such as UTM, VTM, FastTM, LogTM, and LogTM-SE, have been introduced in order to implement high-performance multi-core processors. Especially, LogTM-SE has provided study performance with an efficient memory management policy and a practical thread scheduling method through conflict detection based on signatures. However, increasing number of cores on a processor imposes the hardware complexity for signature processing. This causes overall performance degradation due to the heavy workload on signature comparison. In this paper, we propose a new architecture of multiple signature comparison to improve conflict detection of signature based transactional memory systems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.795-798
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• 2017

최근 멀티코어 프로세서가 개발됨에 따라 병렬 프로그래밍은 멀티코어를 효과적으로 활용하기 위한 기법으로 그 중요성이 높아지고 있다. 트랜잭셔널 메모리는 처리 방식에 따라 HTM, STM, HyTM으로 구분되며, 최근 HTM 및 STM 결합한 HyTM 이 활발히 연구되고 있다. 그러나 기존의 HyTM 는 HTM과 STM의 동시성 제어를 위해 블룸필터를 사용하는 반면, 블룸필터의 자체적인 긍정 오류를 해결하지 못한다. 아울러, 트랜잭션 처리를 위한 메모리 할당/해제를 기존의 락 메커니즘을 사용하여 관리한다. 따라서 멀티코어 환경에서 스레드 수가 증가할수록 트랜잭션 처리 효율이 떨어진다. 본 논문에서는 멀티코어 환경에서 효율적인 트랜잭션 처리를 위한 메모리 관리 기반 하이브리드 트랜잭셔널 메모리 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 트랜잭션 처리에 최적화된 블룸필터를 제공함으로써, 병렬적으로 동시에 수행되는 서로 다른 환경의 트랜잭션에 대해 일관성 있는 처리를 지원한다. 아울러, CPU 캐시라인에 최적화된 메모리 기법을 통해, 메모리 할당량이 적은 트랜잭션은 로컬 캐시에 할당함으로써 트랜잭션의 빠른 처리를 지원한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.72-79
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• 2011

The importance of parallel programming seriously emerges ever since the modern microprocessor architecture has been shifted to the multi-core system. Transactional Memory has been proposed to address synchronization which is usually implemented by using locks. However, the lock based synchronization method reduces the parallelism and has the possibility of causing deadlock. In this paper, we propose an efficient method to utilize transactional memory for the situation which has high contention. The proposed idea is based on the theoretical analysis and it is verified with simulation results. The simulation environment has been implemented using HTM(Hardware Transactional Memory) systems. We also propose a model of the dining philosopher problem to discuss the efficient resource management using the transactional memory technique.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

Traditional transactional memory systems are no longer able to guarantee the performance of diverse applications with overflowed transactions since there is the drawback that tracking the data for logging is difficult. Especially, this mechanism has a disadvantage of increasing communication delay for sustaining the state which is required to detect the conflict on the overflowed transactions from the first level cache in the transactional memory systems. To address this point, we have focused on the cache architecture of the systems to reduce the overhead caused by overflows and cache misses. In this paper, we present Supportive Cache which reduces additional overhead during transactions. Supportive Cache performs a parallel look-up with L1 private cache and uses the same replacement policy as L1 private cache. We evaluate the performance of the proposed design by comparing LogTM-SE with and without Supportive Cache. The simulation results show that our system improves the performance by 37% on average, compared to the original LogTM-SE which uses the same hardware resource.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.49-61
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• 2017

Transactional Memory (TM) has greatly changed the parallel programming paradigm for transaction processing and is classified into STM, HTM, HyTM according to hardware or software frameworks. However, the existing studies have a problem that they provide static retry policy for all workloads. To solve the problems, we propose an hybrid transactional memory scheme using sampling-based adaptive retry policy in multi-core environment. First, the proposed scheme determines whether to use STM or HTM according to the characteristic of a transaction. Otherwise, it executes HTM and STM concurrently by using a bloom filter. Second, the proposed scheme provides adaptive retry policy for HTM according to the characteristic of transactions in each workload. Finally, through the experimental performance evaluation using STAMP, the proposed scheme shows 10~20% better performance than the existing schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.3-4
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• 2016

멀티스레드 프로그램의 수행 중에 발생할 수 있는 자료경합은 프로그래머가 의도하지 않은 비결정적 수행으로 인해 신뢰할 수 없는 프로그램의 결과를 발생시킨다. 이러한 자료경합의 디버깅을 위해서 시간 및 자원적 비용이 과도하게 발생하기 때문에 프로그램의 수행 중에 이를 용인하고 치유하는 것이 중요하다. 본 논문은 멀티스레드 프로그램을 대상으로 소프트웨어 트랜잭셔널 메모리(STM)를 사용하여 공유변수에 대한 트랜잭션 영역을 설정하고 공유변수에 대한 이벤트 충돌 유형에 따른 자료경합 치유기법을 설계한다. 최종적으로는 프로그램 수행 중에 자료경합을 치유하는 기법의 실현가능성을 확인한다.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.442-450
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• 2015

This paper proposes a method for reducing false conflicts in signature-based eager hardware transactional memory (HTM). The method tracks the information on all cache blocks that are accessed by a transaction. If the information provides evidence that there are no conflicts for a given transactional request from another core, the method prevents the occurrence of a false conflict by forcing the HTM to ignore the decision based on the signature. The method is very effective in reducing false conflicts and the associated unnecessary transaction stalls and aborts, and can be used to improve the performance of the multicore processor that implements the signature-based eager HTM. When running the STAMP benchmark on a 16-core processor that implements the LogTM-SE, the increased speed (decrease in execution time) achieved with the use of the method is 20.6% on average.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.466-472
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• 2017

Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) has greatly changed the parallel programming paradigm for transaction processing. Since Intel has recently proposed Transactional Synchronization Extension (TSX), a number of studies based on HTM have been conducted. However, the existing studies support conflict prediction for a single cause of the transaction processing and provide a standardized TSX environment for all workloads. To solve the problems, we propose an efficient hardware transactional memory scheme for processing transactions in multi-core in-memory environment. First, the proposed scheme determines whether to use Software Transactional Memory (STM) or the serial execution as a fallback path of HTM by using a prediction matrix to collect the information of previously executed transactions. Second, the proposed scheme performs efficient transaction processing according to the characteristic of a given workload by providing a retry policy based on machine learning algorithms. Finally, through the experimental performance evaluation using Stanford transactional applications for multi-processing (STAMP), the proposed scheme shows 10~20% better performance than the existing schemes.