Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Chei Yol Kim

Young Kyun Kim

Kang Ho Kim

Hong Yeon Kim

Soo Cheol Oh

Kwang Won Koh

Chang Won Ahn

Dong Oh Kim

A distributed file system, based on a torus network, includes a center node and one or more storage nodes. The center node encodes data when the data is received from a client. The one or more storage nodes receive data blocks or parity blocks from the center node and store the data blocks or parity blocks.

Distributed file system based on torus network

Provided herein a method for allocating storage space using a buddy allocator, the method including receiving, by a buddy allocator, a block allocation request from a space allocation requestor, selecting, by the buddy allocator, a first buddy in response to the block allocation request, wherein the first buddy is one of a plurality of buddies, checking, by the buddy allocator, whether blocks of the first buddy include a first spare storage space to which storage space corresponding to the block allocation request is allocated, allocating, by the buddy allocator, the storage space to the blocks of the first buddy when it is checked that the blocks of the first buddy include the first spare storage space, and deallocating, by the buddy allocator, excess storage space of allocated storage space when a size of the allocated storage space is greater than the storage corresponding to the block allocation request, wherein the excess storage space is not corresponding to the block allocation request.

Method for allocating storage space using buddy allocator

An OS switching method for switching an OS within several seconds in an information processing system is provided. In the information processing system which includes a processor, a main memory, a nonvolatile memory, and a plurality of input/output apparatuses, an OS switcher is executed when power is applied to the information processing system. When a first OS acquires an OS switch command that indicates a switch to a second OS while the first OS is activated and running, the first OS stores identification information of the second OS and information indicating an OS switch in the nonvolatile memory, and performs STR. The OS switcher switches an OS from the first OS to the second OS after the STR is completed. Accordingly, in the system, one OS can be quickly switched to another OS within several seconds, and a previous working environment can be maintained.

Operating system switching method in information processing system including a switcher checking wakeup status in the processor

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Daejeon, South Korea

Chei Yol Kim