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Memory Leak Detection Using Adaptive Cyclic Memory Allocation (동적 순환 메모리 할당 기법을 이용한 메모리 누수 검출)

  • Lim, Woo-Sup;Han, Hwan-Soo;Lee, Sang-Won
    • Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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    • v.37 no.10
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    • pp.760-767
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    • 2010
  • There are many memory leak detection tools. However, programmers, who develop very large programs, tend to avoid testing their programs with memory leak detection tools since these tools require runtime and space overheads. Thus, we present a memory leak detection technique which enables programmers to test their modules in their unit test phase with low overheads. To achieve this goal, we extend the existing cyclic memory allocation technique and evaluate our memory leak detection technique on a tiny DBMS. In our experiments, we find our tool has reasonably low runtime and space overheads and it reports only a small number of false positives.

A Study on Filtering Techniques for Dynamic Analysis of Data Races in Multi-threaded Programs

  • Ha, Ok-Kyoon;Yoo, Hongseok
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.22 no.11
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we introduce three monitoring filtering techniques which reduce the overheads of dynamic data race detection. It is well known that detecting data races dynamically in multi-threaded programs is quite hard and troublesome task, because the dynamic detection techniques need to monitor all execution of a multi-threaded program and to analyse every conflicting memory and thread operations in the program. Thus, the main drawback of the dynamic analysis for detecting data races is the heavy additional time and space overheads for running the program. For the practicality, we also empirically compare the efficiency of three monitoring filtering techniques. The results using OpenMP benchmarks show that the filtering techniques are practical for dynamic data race detection, since they reduce the average runtime overhead to under 10% of that of the pure detection.

A Review of Structural Testing Methods for ASIC based AI Accelerators

  • Umair, Saeed;Irfan Ali, Tunio;Majid, Hussain;Fayaz Ahmed, Memon;Ayaz Ahmed, Hoshu;Ghulam, Hussain
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.103-111
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    • 2023
  • Implementing conventional DFT solution for arrays of DNN accelerators having large number of processing elements (PEs), without considering architectural characteristics of PEs may incur overwhelming test overheads. Recent DFT based techniques have utilized the homogeneity and dataflow of arrays at PE-level and Core-level for obtaining reduction in; test pattern volume, test time, test power and ATPG runtime. This paper reviews these contemporary test solutions for ASIC based DNN accelerators. Mainly, the proposed test architectures, pattern application method with their objectives are reviewed. It is observed that exploitation of architectural characteristic such as homogeneity and dataflow of PEs/ arrays results in reduced test overheads.

On-line Trace Based Automatic Parallelization of Java Programs on Multicore Platforms

  • Sun, Yu;Zhang, Wei
    • Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.105-118
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    • 2012
  • We propose two new approaches that automatically parallelize Java programs at runtime. These approaches, which rely on run-time trace information collected during program execution, dynamically recompile Java byte code that can be executed in parallel. One approach utilizes trace information to improve traditional loop parallelization, and the other parallelizes traces instead of loop iterations. We also describe a cost/benefit model that makes intelligent parallelization decisions, as well as a parallel execution environment to execute parallelized programs. These techniques are based on Jikes RVM. Our approach is evaluated by parallelizing sequential Java programs, and its performance is compared to that of the manually parallelized code. According to the experimental results, our approach has low overheads and achieves competitive speedups compared to the manually parallelizing code. Moreover, trace parallelization can exploit parallelism beyond loop iterations.

An Efficient Filtered Monitoring Technique for Dynamic Analysis of Parallel Programs (병렬 프로그램의 동적 분석을 위한 효율적인 감시 필터링 기술)

  • Park, Se-Won;Ha, Ok-Kyoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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    • 2016.01a
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    • pp.9-10
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    • 2016
  • 본 논문에서는 멀티 스레드 기반 병렬 프로그램의 동적 분석을 통한 자료경합 탐지를 위해 효율적인 감시 필터링 기술을 제시한다. 제시하는 감시 필터링 기술은 자료경합과 같은 동시성 오류를 탐지하기 위해 프로그램의 수행 중에 발생하는 공유 메모리에 대한 스레드들의 접근 분석 시에 동일한 코드영역을 단순 반복하는 스레드들을 감시대상에서 제외시킴으로써 동적 분석을 위한 추가적인 오버헤드를 최소화한다. 제시하는 필터링 기술을 수행 중 자료경합 탐지 도구에 적용한 실험적 평가를 통해 개선된 수행시간 오버헤드의 제공이 가능함을 보인다.

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