• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to study the relability of degree 2 ICR(Interleaved Cydic Ring) network and to compare with the other rings. Two node reliability is the probability that source node communicates with the destination node through a specified time interval for ICR network. The impact for change of failure rate is studied for ICR network for small size of network, the exact value of reliability is calculated but the approximation of average reliability general function from upper bound and lower bound reliability is obtained for large size of it. The reliability of ICR network is compared with it of the other rings according to changing the cycle value of ICR.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.192-200
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• 2002

The performance of a PC cluster system is limited by the use of traditional communication protocols, such as TCP/IP because these protocols are accompanied with significant software overheads. To overcome the problem, systems based on user-level interface for message passing without intervention of kernel have been developed. The VIA(Virtual Interface Architecture) is one of the representative user-level interfaces which provide low latency and high bandwidth. In this paper, a VIA system is implemented on an SCI(Scalable Coherent Interface) network based PC cluster. The system provides both message-passing and shared-memory programming environments and shows the maximum bandwidth of 84MB/s and the latency of $8{\mu}s$. The system also shows better performance in comparison with other comparable computer systems in carrying out parallel benchmark programs.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.29 no.10
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• pp.539-549
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• 2002

PC cluster-based Information Retrieval (IR) systems improve their performances by parallel processing of query terms using cluster nodes. However TCP/IP based communication used to exchange data between cluster nodes prevents the performance from being improved further. The user-level communication mechanisms solve the problem by eliminating the time-consuming kernel access in exchanging data between cluster nodes. The Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) is one of the representative user-level communication mechanisms which provide low latency and high bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a VIA-based parallel IR system on a PC cluster. The IR system is implemented using the following three communication methods: Sealable Coherent Interface (SCI) based VIA, MPI on SCI based VIA, MPI on Fast Ethernet based VIA. Through experiments, the performances of the three methods are analyzed in various aspects.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1338-1341
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• 2007

클러스터 파일 시스템의 성능은 노드 내부 연산의 성능 뿐만 아니라 노드간의 통신 성능이 전체 시스템의 성능에 큰 영향을 미친다. 최근의 클러스터 파일 시스템에는 Myrinet, ServerNet, QNet, SCI(Scalable Coherent Interface) 등의 고속 인터페이스를 통해 연결하는 것이 일반화되어 있다 본 논문에서는 노드간의 통신 성능을 높이기 위해서 Myrinet 환경에서 제공해 주는 사용자 수준의 통신 프로토콜인 VI-GM(Virtual Interface Architecture over GM)을 사용하여 2개 이상의 네트워크 장치를 하나처럼 보이게 해서 Redundancy와 대역폭을 증가시키는 채널 본딩 기법을 기반으로 통신 모듈을 개발하였다. 그리고 성능 실험을 통해 제안된 모듈의 우수함을 보였다.