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A preliminary performance evaluation of the Quadrics architecture with the DARPA image understanding benchmark

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This work presents a preliminary performance evaluation of the Quadrics SIMD massively parallel computer in the execution of a suite of image processing algorithms. The suite is extracted from the low-level and intermediate-level processing sections of the widely-used DARPA Image Understanding benchmark for parallel computers. Implementation issues are briefly described and data partitioning and mapping is addressed. Measurements carried out on two different machine configurations are reported and compared with the performance of other well-known parallel systems.

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Massimo Piccardi, Tullio Salmon Cinotti & Silvia Zuffi

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  1. Massimo Piccardi
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Piccardi, M., Cinotti, T.S., Zuffi, S. (1995). A preliminary performance evaluation of the Quadrics architecture with the DARPA image understanding benchmark. In: Hertzberger, B., Serazzi, G. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 919. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0046619

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