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A Real-Time Distributed Video Image Processing System on PC-Cluster

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Parallel Computation (ACPC 1999)

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This paper describes a PC-cluster system for real-time distributed video image processing. The PC-cluster consists of eight PCs connected by a very high speed network. The key issue of this system is synchronization of distributed video data. Frame synchronization module is introduced to realize three kinds of synchronization: forward synchronization, barrier synchronization and backward synchronization. Forward synchronization is to notify of timing to start processing. Barrier synchronization is to wait for all data that are processed at the same time. Backward synchronization is to cancel processing and transferring useless data. Experimental results are also shown to confirm the performance of the PC-cluster.

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  1. Department of Intelligent Systems, Kyushu University, 6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan

    Daisaku Arita, Yoshio Hamada & Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

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  1. Daisaku Arita
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  1. Forschungsinstitut für Softwaretechnologie, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Peter Zinterhof

  2. Slovac Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mathematics, Laboratory for Informatics, Dubravska 9, P.O.Box 56, 840 00, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Marian Vajteršic

  3. Universität Salzburg, RIST++, Hellbrunnerstr. 34, A-5020, Salzburg, Austria

    Andreas Uhl

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Arita, D., Hamada, Y., Taniguchi, Ri. (1999). A Real-Time Distributed Video Image Processing System on PC-Cluster. In: Zinterhof, P., Vajteršic, M., Uhl, A. (eds) Parallel Computation. ACPC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1557. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49164-3_28

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