Irregular large-scale computed tomography on multiple graphics processors improves energy-efficiency metrics for industrial applications

Autor: Laurel Orr, Edward S. Jimenez, Eric L. Goodman, Kyle R. Thompson, Ryeojin Park
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: SPIE Proceedings.
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.2060721
Popis: This paper will investigate energy-efficiency for various real-world industrial computed-tomography reconstruction algorithms, both CPU- and GPU-based implementations. This work shows that the energy required for a given reconstruction is based on performance and problem size. There are many ways to describe performance and energy efficiency, thus this work will investigate multiple metrics including performance-per-watt, energy-delay product, and energy consumption. This work found that irregular GPU-based approaches 1 realized tremendous savings in energy consumption when compared to CPU implementations while also significantly improving the performance-per- watt and energy-delay product metrics. Additional energy savings and other metric improvement was realized on the GPU-based reconstructions by improving storage I/O by implementing a parallel MIMD-like modularization of the compute and I/O tasks.
Databáze: OpenAIRE