Accessible high performance computing solutions for near real-time image processing for time critical applications

Conrad Bielski; Guido Lemoine; Jacek Syryczynski

doi:10.1117/12.830356

28 September 2009 Accessible high performance computing solutions for near real-time image processing for time critical applications

Conrad Bielski, Guido Lemoine, Jacek Syryczynski

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Proceedings Volume 7477, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XV; 74770D (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830356
Event: SPIE Remote Sensing, 2009, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

High Performance Computing (HPC) hardware solutions such as grid computing and General Processing on a Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) are now accessible to users with general computing needs. Grid computing infrastructures in the form of computing clusters or blades are becoming common place and GPGPU solutions that leverage the processing power of the video card are quickly being integrated into personal workstations. Our interest in these HPC technologies stems from the need to produce near real-time maps from a combination of pre- and post-event satellite imagery in support of post-disaster management. Faster processing provides a twofold gain in this situation: 1. critical information can be provided faster and 2. more elaborate automated processing can be performed prior to providing the critical information. In our particular case, we test the use of the PANTEX index which is based on analysis of image textural measures extracted using anisotropic, rotation-invariant GLCM statistics. The use of this index, applied in a moving window, has been shown to successfully identify built-up areas in remotely sensed imagery. Built-up index image masks are important input to the structuring of damage assessment interpretation because they help optimise the workload. The performance of computing the PANTEX workflow is compared on two different HPC hardware architectures: (1) a blade server with 4 blades, each having dual quad-core CPUs and (2) a CUDA enabled GPU workstation. The reference platform is a dual CPU-quad core workstation and the PANTEX workflow total computing time is measured. Furthermore, as part of a qualitative evaluation, the differences in setting up and configuring various hardware solutions and the related software coding effort is presented.

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Conrad Bielski, Guido Lemoine, and Jacek Syryczynski "Accessible high performance computing solutions for near real-time image processing for time critical applications", Proc. SPIE 7477, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XV, 74770D (28 September 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.830356

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