Parallel edge detection on the multi-core cell broadband engine

Author

Kidwai, Hashir Karim ; Sibai, Fadi N. ; Rabie, Tamer

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. Technol., United Arab Emirates Univ., Al Ain

fYear

2008

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

92

Lastpage

96

Abstract

The IBM Cell Broadband Engine (BE) is a multi-core processor with a PowerPC host processor (PPE) and 8 synergic processor engines (SPEs). The Cell BE architecture is designed to improve upon conventional processors in terms of memory latency, bandwidth and power computation. In this paper, we discuss the parallelization, implementation and performance of the edge detection image processing application on the IBM Cell BE. We report the edge detection performance measured on a computer with one Cell processor and with varying numbers of synergic processor engines enabled. These results were compared to the results obtained on the Cells single PPE with all 8 SPEs disabled. The results indicate that edge detection performs 10 times faster on the Cell BE than modern RISC processors.

Keywords

edge detection; microprocessor chips; Cell processor; IBM Cell Broadband Engine; PowerPC host processor; RISC processors; memory latency; multicore processor; parallel edge detection image processing; power computation; synergic processor engines; Application software; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Delay; Engines; Image edge detection; Image processing; Multicore processing; Reduced instruction set computing; Cell Broadband Engine; Edge Detection; Multi-Core Computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovations in Information Technology, 2008. IIT 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Al Ain

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3396-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3397-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INNOVATIONS.2008.4781645

Filename

4781645