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A PVM implementation of a portable parallel image processing library

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Parallel Virtual Machine — EuroPVM '96 (EuroPVM 1996)

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Abstract

This paper presents a portable parallel image processing library, which provides a high-level transparent programming model for image processing application development. The library is implemented using the PVM message-passing environment in order to achieve maximum portability. The paper describes the layered software model developed to provide extensibility and to hide the details of parallelism and the idio-syncrasies of the various communication technologies. Implementation details of the image processing library and the abstract communications layer are described and we report on the performance of the library operations we achieved on Ethernet and ATM network based workstation clusters.

Supported by the Hungarian National Science and Research Foundation (OTKA) under Grant No. F007345.

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Veszprem, P.O.Box 158, H-8201, Veszprem, Hungary

    Zoltan Juhasz

  2. Department of Computer Science, The Queen's University of Belfast, BT7 1NN, Belfast, UK

    Danny Crookes

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Arndt Bode Jack Dongarra Thomas Ludwig Vaidy Sunderam

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Juhasz, Z., Crookes, D. (1996). A PVM implementation of a portable parallel image processing library. In: Bode, A., Dongarra, J., Ludwig, T., Sunderam, V. (eds) Parallel Virtual Machine — EuroPVM '96. EuroPVM 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3540617795_24

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