| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K40291/01 |
| Title: |
A PORTABLE COPROCESSOR MODEL FOR PARALLEL IMAGE PROCESSING |
| Principal Investigator: |
Morrow, Professor PJ |
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Computing Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Ulster |
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Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 April 1995 |
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31 March 1997 |
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92,014
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The primary direct objective of the proposed research is to build an environment for developing portable, parallel software systems, initially targeted at image processing applications. An efficient implementation will be produced for distributed memory multiprocessor machines. Our approach will be to decouple the potentially parallel (and architecture-dependent) aspects of a program from the remainder by defining an abstract Extensible Parallel Image Coprocessor (EPIC), and developing associated software tools. The extensible nature of the coprocessor is crucial to obtaining optimised execution of programs.The more long term aim of the research is to contribute to the quest for a general purpose abstract programming model which guarantees efficient implementation. One approach to this is often to begin with a general-purpose model and to research techniques which make the implementation increasingly efficient. Our approach will instead be to begin with an application-specific model which from the outset guarantees efficiency and portability, and from this model, generalise its abstractions to move towards a general-purpose model.
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