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Sixth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2007)
Image Filtering on .NET-based Desktop Grids
Urumchi, Xinjiang, China
August 16-August 18
ISBN: 0-7695-2871-6
Christian Vecchiola, University of Genoa, Italy
Krishna Nadiminti, University of Melbourne, Australia
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
Image filtering is the use of computer graphics algorithms to enhance the quality of digital images or to extract information about their content. However rendering very large size digital images on a single machine is a performance bottleneck. To address this we propose parallelising this application on a desktop Grid environment. For parallelizing this application we use the Alchemi Desktop Grid environment and the resulting framework is referred to as ImageGrid. ImageGrid allows the parallel execution of linear digital filters algorithms on images. We observed acceptable speed up as a result of parallelising filtering operation through ImageGrid. We run the tests on different data sets by varying the dimension of the images and the complexity of the filters. Results demonstrate potential of Grid computing for desktop applications and that the speed up obtained is more consistent for large images and complex filters.
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Christian Vecchiola, Krishna Nadiminti, Rajkumar Buyya, "Image Filtering on .NET-based Desktop Grids," gcc, pp.582-592, Sixth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2007), 2007
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