• 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.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.4 no.6
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• pp.177-184
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• 2015

This paper proposes a minimum-power scheduling scheme of real-time parallel tasks while meeting deadlines of the real-time tasks on DVFS-enabled multicore processors. The proposed scheme first finds a floating number of processing cores to each task so that the computation load of all processing cores would be equalized. Next the scheme translates the found floating number of cores into a natural number of cores while maintaining the computation load of all cores unchanged, and allocates the translated natural number of cores to the execution of each task. The scheme is designed to minimize the power consumption of the frequency-sharing multicore processor operating with the same processing speed at an instant time. Evaluation shows that the scheme saves up to 38% power consumption of the previous method.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.34-40
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• 2006

고속 암호프로세서는 매우 큰 대역폭을 필요로 하는 네트워크 보안 장비, 서버 시스템의 보안의 필수 요소이다. 암호 프로세서는 고속 대용량 처리를 위한 고성능 쪽과 유비쿼터스 등 이동 환경에 적합한 초소형 저전력 쪽으로 크게 두 가지로 나누어 질 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 암호 프로세서의 고속 구현의 몇 가지 요소 기술 들을 살펴 본다. 일반적으로 디지털 논리 설계에 많이 쓰이고 있는 파이프라인 기법과 이를 적용한 결과들을 살펴보고, 여러 개의 암호 코어를 쓰는 방법, 하나의 암호 코어로 여러 개의 세션을 처리할 때 속도 저하를 막기 위한 세션 변경 방법을 설명한다. 끝으로 처리 성능에 영향을 주는 인터페이스 부분을 USB2.0의 보기를 들어 살펴본다.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.176-185
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• 2014

최근 프로세서는 회로의 집적도 기술을 동작속도를 높이는 것에서 코어의 수를 늘리는 것으로 활용하고 있다. 근래에는 4코어, 8코어가 널리 쓰이고 있으며 서버급에서는 15코어, 18코어까지 출시되고 있다. 또한 향후 몇 년 안에 128코어를 넘어서서 수백 혹은 수천 코어의 Manycore 시스템까지 예상되고 있다. 이에 반해 프로세서를 관리하는 소프트웨어인 운영체제는 아직은 적은 수의 코어에 최적화되어 있는 것이 현실이다. 본 논문에서는 현재의 운영체제가 Manycore 시스템에서 어떠한 문제가 있는지를 알아보고, 세계 여러 연구소에서 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 제시한 몇 가지 운영체제를 소개함으로써 Manycore 시스템에 대응하는 운영체제의 변화를 살펴본다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.31-39
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a power-efficient scheduling scheme that stochastically minimizes the power consumption of a real-time parallel task while meeting the deadline on multicore processors. The proposed scheme applies the parallel processing that executes a task on multiple cores concurrently, and activates a part of all available cores with unused cores powered off, in order to save power consumption. It is proved that the proposed scheme minimizes the mean power consumption of a real-time parallel task with probabilistic computation amount on DVFS-enabled multicore processors with a finite set of discrete clock frequencies. Evaluation shows that the proposed scheme saves up to 81% power consumption of the previous method.

• 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.