GPU-based image processing unse cases: A high-level approach

Author(s) Volkmar Wieser
Clemens Grelck
Holger Schöner
Peter Haslinger
Karoly Bosa
Bernhard Moser
Title GPU-based image processing unse cases: A high-level approach
Booktitle Applications, Tools and Techniques on the Road to Exascale Computing
Typ Incollection
Month May
Year 2012
Volume 22
Serie Advances in Parallel Computing
Pages 199-206
Editor(s) K. De Bosschere, E.H. D'Hollander, G.R. Joubert, D. Padua, F. Peters
Publisher IOS Press
ISBN 978-1-61499-040-6
SCCH # 1143
this paper addresses the gap between envisioned hardware-virtualized techniques for GPU programming and a conventional approach from the point of view of an application engineer taking software engineering aspects like maintainability, understandability and productivity, and resulting achieved gain in performance and scalability into account. This gap is discussed on the basis of use cases from the field of image processing, and illustrated by means of performance benchmarks as well as evaluations regarding software engineering productivity.