IMAGE MAGNIFICATION AND REDUCTION USING HIGH ORDER FILTERING ON THE CELL BROADBAND ENGINE

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

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IMAGE MAGNIFICATION AND REDUCTION USING HIGH ORDER FILTERING ON THE CELL BROADBAND ENGINE

Hashir Karim Kidwai, Fadi N. Sibai, Tamer Rabie and IEEE

2008 5TH INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, SIGNALS AND DEVICES, VOLS 1 AND 2, pp.342-346

01/01/2008

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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 compute power. In this paper, we describe a 2D graphics algorithm for image resizing which we parallelized and developed on the Cell BE. We report the performance measured on one Cell blade with varying numbers of synergic processor engines enabled. These results were compared to those obtained on the Cell's single PPE and with all 8 SPEs disabled. The results indicate that the Cell processor can outperform modem RISC processors by 20x on SIMD compute intensive applications such as image resizing.

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Title: IMAGE MAGNIFICATION AND REDUCTION USING HIGH ORDER FILTERING ON THE CELL BROADBAND ENGINE
Creators - without role: Hashir Karim Kidwai - UAE Univ, Coll Informat Technol, Al Ain, U Arab Emirates
Fadi N. Sibai - UAE Univ, Coll Informat Technol, Al Ain, U Arab Emirates
Tamer Rabie - UAE Univ, Coll Informat Technol, Al Ain, U Arab Emirates
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Publication Details: 2008 5TH INTERNATIONAL MULTI-CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS, SIGNALS AND DEVICES, VOLS 1 AND 2, pp.342-346
Publisher: IEEE
Number of pages: 5
Identifiers: 9925305908331
Academic Unit: Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
Language: English
Resource Type: Conference proceeding