Frameworks for Multi-core Architectures: A Comprehensive Evaluation using 2D/3D Image Registration

Membarth R, Hannig F, Teich J, Körner M, Eckert W (2011)

Publication Type: Conference contribution

Publication year: 2011

Journal

Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer Verlag

Publisher: Springer-verlag

Edited Volumes: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

City/Town: Heidelberg

Book Volume: 6566

Pages Range: 62-73

Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS)

Event location: Lake Como IT

ISBN: 9783642191367

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19137-4_6

Abstract

The development of standard processors changed in the last years moving from bigger, more complex, and faster cores to putting several more simple cores onto one chip. This changed also the way programs are written in order to leverage the processing power of multiple cores of the same processor. In the beginning, programmers had to divide and distribute the work by hand to the available cores and to manage threads in order to use more than one core. Today, several frameworks exist to relieve the programmer from such tasks. In this paper, we present five such frameworks for parallelization on shared memory multi-core architectures, namely OpenMP, Cilk++, Threading Building Blocks, RapidMind, and OpenCL. To evaluate these frameworks, a real world application from medical imaging is investigated, the 2D/3D image registration. In an empirical study, a fine-grained data parallel and a coarse-grained task parallel parallelization approach are used to evaluate and estimate different aspects like usability, performance, and overhead of each framework. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.

Authors with CRIS profile

Richard Membarth Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design) Frank Hannig Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design) Jürgen Teich Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design)

Related research project(s)

Multi-core Architectures and Programming Jan. 1, 2009 - Dec. 31, 2014

Involved external institutions

Siemens AG, Healthcare Sector DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Membarth, R., Hannig, F., Teich, J., Körner, M., & Eckert, W. (2011). Frameworks for Multi-core Architectures: A Comprehensive Evaluation using 2D/3D Image Registration. In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS) (pp. 62-73). Lake Como, IT: Heidelberg: Springer-verlag.

MLA:

Membarth, Richard, et al. "Frameworks for Multi-core Architectures: A Comprehensive Evaluation using 2D/3D Image Registration." Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Lake Como Heidelberg: Springer-verlag, 2011. 62-73.

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