Distributed image processing over an adaptive Campus Grid

  • Authors:

  • Simon J. Caton;Omer F. Rana;Bruce G. Batchelor

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Roath, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.;School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Roath, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.;School of Computer Science, Cardiff University, 5 The Parade, Roath, Cardiff CF24 3AA, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - The Best of CCGrid'2007: A Snapshot of an ‘Adolescent’ Area
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A system implemented in MATLAB is described, which may be deployed over a Campus Grid utilizing the Condor job management system. Our approach can re-distribute jobs as node availability changes. The architecture of the system, its components, and their deployment across the Cardiff University Campus Grid (consisting of 2500 machines) are presented. Challenges in image processing applications that can be deployed over such infrastructure are presented, along with performance results that demonstrate the use of our system alongside a standard Condor deployment, demonstrating a significant increase in throughput using our approach‡. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.