Parallel video surveillance on the multi-core cell broadband engine
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 power computation. In this paper, we discuss the parallelization, implementation and performance of a video surveillance application on the IBM Cell BE. We report the Video surveillance applications performance measured on a computer with one Cell processor and with varying numbers of synergic processor engines enabled. These results were compared to the results obtained on the Cells single PPE with all 8 SPEs disabled. The results indicate that our video surveillance application performs approximately 16 times faster on the Cell BE than modern RISC processors by processing input data from five separate surveillance video streams in parallel.
Tamer Rabie Hashir Karim Kidwai Fadi N.Sibai
College of Information Technology, United Arab Emirates University Al Ain, 17551, UAE
国际会议
三亚
英文
85-89
2009-04-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）