Multimedia performance behavior of the GigaView parallel image server

Author

Gennart, Benoit A. ; Hersch, Roger D.

Author_Institution

Ecole Polytech. Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

1994

fDate

1994

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

98

Abstract

Multimedia interfaces increase the need for large image databases, supporting the capability of storing and fetching streams of data with strict synchronicity and isochronicity requirements. In order to fulfill these requirements, the GigaView parallel image server architecture relies on arrays of intelligent disk nodes, with each disk node being composed of one processor and one disk. This paper analyzes, through simulation, the real-time behavior of the GigaView in terms of delay and delay jitter. For a high-end GigaView architecture, consisting of 16 disks and T9000 transputers, we evaluate stream frame access times under various parameters, such as load factors, frame size, stream throughput, and synchronicity requirements

Keywords

delays; file servers; image processing equipment; magnetic disc storage; multimedia systems; parallel architectures; performance evaluation; synchronisation; transputer systems; very large databases; visual databases; GigaView parallel image server; T9000 transputers; data stream fetching; data stream storage; delay jitter; frame size; intelligent disk node arrays; isochronicity requirements; large image databases; load factors; multimedia interfaces; multimedia performance behavior; parallel architecture; real-time behavior; simulation; stream frame access times; stream throughput; synchronicity requirements; Analytical models; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Delay; Image storage; Jitter; Multimedia databases; Network servers; Streaming media; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems, 1994. 'Towards Distributed Storage and Data Management Systems.' First International Symposium. Proceedings., Thirteenth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Annecy

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5580-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.1994.373038

Filename

373038