Title :
Highly parallel image processing on the STI Cell
Author :
Kidwai, Hashir Karim ; Sibai, Fadi N. ; Rabie, Tamer
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Technol., UAE Univ., Al Ain
Abstract :
Massively deployed inside Sony PS3 platforms, the STI Cell Broadband Engine is a multi-core processor with a PowerPC host processor (PPE) and 8 synergic processor engines (SPEs). In this paper, we describe three image processing applications which we implemented on the Cell BE. We report the performance measured on one Cell blade with varying numbers of synergic processor engines enabled, and with varying application parameters. These results were compared to the results obtained on the Cell BE running a single PPE and with all 8 SPEs disabled. The results reveal the superior performance of image processing and SIMD-prone applications on the 9-core Cell BE processor over conventional RISC processors.
Keywords :
image processing; microprocessor chips; reduced instruction set computing; PowerPC host processor; RISC processors; SIMD-prone applications; STI Cell Broadband Engine; Sony PS3 platforms; parallel image processing; synergic processor engines; Application software; Detectors; Educational institutions; Engines; Filtering; Image edge detection; Image processing; Information technology; Pixel; Reduced instruction set computing;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Systems and Applications, 2009. AICCSA 2009. IEEE/ACS International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rabat
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3807-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3806-8
DOI :
10.1109/AICCSA.2009.5069428
