All Publications

Book Chapters

1. Y. Kim, S. Gurumurthi, A. Sivasubramaniam. Dynamic Thermal Management for High-Performance Storage Systems. Handbook of Energy-aware and Green Computing. Editors: Ishfaq Ahmad and Sanjay Rank, Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group LLC, December 26. 2011. ISBN-13: 978-1439850404.

Journal Publications

2. (Submitted) Y. Kim, A. Gupta, B. Urgaonkar. A Temporal Locality-aware Page-Mapped Flash Translation Layer. Submitted for SCI journal publication on Dec. 2011. (currently under review)
   
   
3. (Submitted) J. Lee, Y. Kim*, G. Shipman, S. Oral, J. Kim. Preemptive I/O Scheduling of Garbage Collection for Solid-state Drives. Submitted for SCI journal publication on Feb. 2012. (currently under review) (*Dr. Kim is a corresponding author.)
   
   
4. (In revision) Y. Kim, J. Lee, S. Oral, G. Shipman, D. Dillow, F. Wang. Coordinating Garbage Collection for Arrays of Solid-state Drives. Decision made, revision recommended for SCI journal publication on May. 2012.
   
   
5. (In revision) M. Jeon, Y. Kim, J. Hwang, J. Lee, E. Seo. Workload Characterization and Performance Implications of Large-Scale Blog Servers. Accepted with minor revision in ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) on Feb. 2012.
   
   
6. S.-Y. Park, Y. Kim, B. Urgaonkar, J. Lee, E. Seo. A Comprehensive Study on Energy Efficiency and Performance of Flash-based SSD. Elsevier Journal of System Architecture (JSA 2011), Volume 57, Issue 4, Pages 354-365, April 2011. (Selected one of the top 25 most downloaded articles for 2011 from Elsevier’s Sciverse Sciencedirect)
   
   
7. Y. Kim, J. Choi, S. Gurumurthi, A. Sivasubramaniam. Managing Thermal Emergencies in Disk-Based Storage Systems. ASME Journal of Electronic Packaging (ASME JEP 2008), Volume 130, Issue 4, Pages 041105-1–041105-8, December 2008.
   
   
8. J. Choi, Y. Kim, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. Srebric, Q. Wang, J. Lee. CFD-based Tool for Studying Temperature in Rack-mounted Servers. IEEE Transactions on Computer (TC 2008), Volume 57, Issue 8, Pages 1129-1142, August 2008.
   
   
9. S. Gurumurthi, Y. Kim, A. Sivasubramaniam. Using STEAM for Thermal Simulation of Storage Systems. IEEE Micro Special Issue on Computer Architecture Simulation and Modeling (Micro 2006), Volume 26, Number 4, Pages 43-51, July/August 2006.

Conference Publications

10. S.-H. Lim, J.-S. Huh, Y. Kim, G. Shipman, C. Das. D-Factor: A Quantitative Model of Application Slow-Down in Shared Service Systems with Multiple Resources. In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS 2012), London, United Kingdom, June 11-15, 2012.
    
    • (Acceptance Rate: 15.2%, 31 out of 203 submissions.)
      
    • Technical Report (TR-10-010). Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
    
    
11. C. Wang, S. Vazhkudai, X. Ma, F. Meng, Y. Kim, C. Engelmann. NVMalloc: Exposing an Aggregate SSD Store as a Memory Partition in Extreme-Scale Machines. In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2012), Shanghai, China, May 21-25, 2012.
    • (Acceptance Rate: 20.7%, 118 out of 569 submissions.)
    
    
12. G. Shipman, D. Dillow, S. Oral, Y. Kim, D. Fuller, J. Simmons, J. Hill. A Next-Generation Parallel File System Environment for the OLCF. In Proceedings of the Cray User Goup conference (CUG 2012), Stuttgart, Germany, April 29-May 3, 2012.
    
    
13. S. Boboila, Y. Kim, S. Vazhkudai, P. Desnoyers, G. Shipman. Active Flash: Out-of-core Data Analytics on Flash Storage. In Proceedings of the 28th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2012), Monterey, CA, April 16-20, 2012.
    
    • (Acceptance Rate: 24.5%, 14 accepted out of 57 submissions.)
    • Ms. Boboila was an intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the summer of 2011. (Mentors: Dr. Kim and Dr. Vazhkudai)
    
    
14. D. Dillow, S. Oral, G. Shipman, Z. Zhang, Y. Kim. Enhancing I/O Throughput via Efficient Routing and Placement for Large-scale Parallel File Systems. In Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2011), Orlando, FL, November 17-19, 2011.
    • (Acceptance Rate: 27.9%, 36 out of 129 submissions.)
    
    
15. R. Prabhakar, S. Vazhkudai, Y. Kim, A. Butt, M. Li, M. Kandemir. Provisioning a Multi-Tiered Data Staging Area for Extreme-Scale Machines. In Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 20-24, 2011.
    
    • (Acceptance Rate: 15.1%, 87 selected out of 565 submissions.)
    • Ms. Prabhakar was an intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the summer of 2010. (Mentor: Dr. Kim and Dr. Vazhkudai)
    
    
16. Y. Kim, A. Gupta, B. Urgaonkar, P. Berman, A. Sivasubramaniam. HybridStore: A Cost-Efficient, High-Performance Storage System Combining SSDs and HDDs. In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2011), Singapore, July 25-27, 2011.
    
    • (Acceptance Rate: 26.1%, 41 out of 157 submissions.)
    • Technical Report (CSE-08-017), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University 2008.
      
    
    
17. Y. Kim, S. Oral, G. Shipman, J. Lee, D. Dillow, F. Wang. Harmonia: A Globally Coordinated Garbage Collector for Arrays of Solid-state Drives. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Symposium on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 2011), Denver, Colorado, May 23-27, 2011.
    
    • (Acceptance Rate: 23.8%, 15 accepted out of 63 submissions.)
    
    
18. J. Lee, Y. Kim, G. Shipman, S. Oral, F. Wang, J. Kim. A Semi-Preemptive Garbage Collector for Solid State Drives. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS 2011), Austin, TX, April 10-12, 2011.
    • (Nominated for the best paper award), (6.3%, top 4 out of 64 submissions nominated for the best paper award)
    • Mr. Lee was an intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the summer of 2010. (Mentor: Dr. Kim)
    
    
19. M. Li, S. Vazhkudai, A. Butt, F. Meng, X. Ma, Y. Kim, C. Engelmann, G. Shipman. Functional Partitioning to Optimize End-to-End Performance on Many-Core Architectures. In Proceedings of Supercomputing (SC): the 23th IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC 2010), New Orleans, LA, November 2010.
    
    • (Acceptance Rate: 20.1%, 51 out of 253 submissions.)
    
    
20. M. Jeon, J. Hwang, Y. Kim, J.-W. Jang, J. Lee, E. Seo. Measurement, Modeling, and Analysis of a Large-scale Blog Sever Workload. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Computing Applications (SCA 2010), Minneapolis, MN, August 2010.
    • (Invited paper, only 15% selected from SocialCom-10 submissions.)
    
    
21. Y. Kim, B. Tauras, A. Gupta, B. Urgaonkar. FlashSim: A Simulator for NAND Flash-based Solid-State Drives. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in System Simulation (SIMUL 2009), Porto, Portugal, September 2009.
    
    • (Acceptance Rate: 31.0%.)
      
    • Technical Report (CSE-09-008), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
    
    
22. A. Gupta, Y. Kim, and B. Urgaonkar. DFTL: A Flash Translation Layer Employing Demand-based Selective Caching of Page-level Address Mappings. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2009), Washington DC, March 2009.
    • (Acceptance Rate: 21.8%, 29 out of 113 submissions.)
    
    
23. Y. Kim, J. Choi, S. Gurumurthi, A. Sivasubramaniam. Graceful Operation of Disk Drives under Thermal Emergencies. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Thermal Issues in Emerging Technologies Theory and Application (THETA 2007), Cairo, Egypt, January 2007.
    • (Selected for journal publication)
    
    
24. J. Choi, Y. Kim, A. Sivasubramaniam, J. Srebric, Q. Wang, J. Lee. Modeling and Managing Thermal Profiles of Rack-mounted Servers with ThermoStat. In Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2007), Phoenix, Arizona, February 2007.
    • (Nominated for the best paper award)
    • (Acceptance Rate: 16.0%, 28 out of 174 submissions.)
    
    
25. Y. Kim, S. Gurumurthi, A. Sivasubramaniam. Understanding the Performance-Temperature Interactions in Disk I/O of Server Workloads. In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA 2006), Austin, Texas, February 2006.
    
    • (Acceptance Rate: 15.6%, 26 out of 172 submissions.)
      
    • Detailed Technical Report (CSE-05-007), Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University.
    
    
26. Y. Kim, S. Park, S. Maeng. Practical Schemes Using Logs for Lightweight Recoverable DSM. In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2003), Marina del Rey, CA, November 2003.
    • (A full paper is Dr. Kim's Master dissertation.)
      
    
    
27. S. Park, Y. Kim, S. Maeng. Lightweight Logging and Recovery for Distributed Shared Memory over Virtual Interface Architecture. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2003), Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2003.

Workshop Publications

28. J. Lee, Y. Kim, S. Oral, G. Shipman, D. Dillow, F. Wang. Comparing Coordinated Garbage Collection Algorithms for Arrays of Solid-state Drives. In Proceedings of the 3rd Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2012), San Diego, CA, March 4-6, 2012.
    • Acceptance rate: 55.0% accepted out of 60 submissions.
    • Mr. Lee was an intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the summer of 2011. (Mentor: Dr. Kim)
    
    
29. S. Boboila, Y. Kim, S. Vazhkudai, P. Desnoyers, G. Shipman. Performance-Energy Tradeoffs for Out-of-Core Processing on Non-Volatile Memory Devices. Poster in the In Proceedings of the 3rd Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2012), San Diego, CA, March 4-6, 2012.
    • (A full paper appears in MSST 2012.) (Click to view the poster)
    • Ms. Boboila was an intern at Oak Ridge National Laboratory during the summer of 2011. (Mentors: Dr. Kim and Dr. Vazhkudai)
    
    
30. S.-H. Lim, J.-S. Huh, Y. Kim, C. Das. Migration, Assignment, and Scheduling of Jobs in Virtualized Environment. In Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud 2011), Portland, OR, June 2011.
    • (Acceptance Rate: 31.0%, 23 out of 72 submissions.)
    
    
31. Y. Kim, J. Lee, G. Shipman. Pathological Behavior of SSDs and Application in HPC Storage. In Proceedings of the 2nd Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW 2011), San Diego, CA, March 2011.
    • (Acceptance Rate: 50.7%, 32 accepted talks out of 63 submissions.)
    
    
32. Y. Kim, R. Gunasekaran, G. Shipman, D. Dillow, Z. Zhang, B. Settlemyer. Workload Characterization of a Leadership Class Storage. In Proceedings of the 5th Petascale Data Storage Workshop (PDSW 2010), New Orleans, LA, November 2010.

Technical Reports (Unpublished Papers)

33. Z. Zhang, Y. Kim, X. Ma, G. Shipman, Y. Zhou. Multi-level Hybrid Cache: Impact and Feasibility. Technical Report (ORNL/TM-2010/297). National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, February 2012.
    
    
34. Y. Kim, S. Oral, D. Dillow, F. Wang, D. Fuller, S. Poole, G. Shipman. An Empirical Study of Redundant Array of Independent Solid-State Drives (RAIS). Technical Report (ORNL/TM-2010/61). National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2010.

Non-Referred Papers/Presentations

35. G. Shipman, D. Reitz, J. Simmons, D. Dillow, D. Fuller, Y. Kim, J. Hill, and S. Oral. Technical Overview of the OLCF’s Next Generation Parallel File System, Lustre User Group - LUG 2012.
    

U.S. Patents

36. Inventors: (Alphabetic order by author's last name) D. Dillow, Y. Kim, S. Oral, G. Shipman, F. Wang. Coordinated Garbage Collection for RAID Array of Solid State Disks. U.S. Patent Application 61,370,908 filed August 5, 2010.
    • Provisional Acceptance on September 2010. A full application was filed in the USPTO on January 28, 2011.
    • A detailed technical paper of the patent has been published in IEEE MSST 2011.

Dissertations

37. (Ph.D. Thesis) Y. Kim. Design Challenges on Enterprise-scale Storage Systems Employing Hard Drives and NAND Flash based Solid-state Drives. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, December 2009.
    
    
38. (M.S. Thesis) Y. Kim. Performance Enhancement of Fault-Tolerant Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems (DSM) with Message Logging. Department of Computer Science, KAIST, July 2003.
    

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