Title :
Parallelizing I/O-intensive image access and processing applications
Author :
Messerli, Vincent ; Figueiredo, Oscar ; Gennart, Benoit ; Hersch, Roger D.
Author_Institution :
Ecole Polytech. Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Abstract :
This article presents methods and tools for building parallel applications based on commodity components: PCs, SCSI disks, Fast Ethernet, Windows NT. Chief among these tools is CAP, our computer-aided parallelization tool. CAP generates highly pipelined applications that run communication and I/O operations in parallel with processing operations. One of CAP´s successes is the Visible Human Slice Server, a 3D tomographic image server that allows clients to choose and view any cross section of the human body
Keywords :
image processing; multimedia servers; parallel programming; software tools; 3D tomographic image server; CAP; I/O-intensive image access; Visible Human Slice Server; computer-aided parallelization tool; human body; parallel applications; pipelined applications; Application software; Computer errors; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; File systems; Humans; Parallel programming; Personal communication networks; Web server; Yarn;
Journal_Title :
Concurrency, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/4434.766960
