SCHEDULE: NOV 10-16, 2012
When viewing the Technical Program schedule, on the far righthand side is a column labeled "PLANNER." Use this planner to build your own schedule. Once you select an event and want to add it to your personal schedule, just click on the calendar icon of your choice (outlook calendar, ical calendar or google calendar) and that event will be stored there. As you select events in this manner, you will have your own schedule to guide you through the week.
Imaging Through Cluttered Media Using Electromagnetic Interferometry on a Hardware-Accelerated High-Performance Cluster
SESSION: Research Poster Reception
EVENT TYPE: Posters and Electronic Posters
TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM
SESSION CHAIR: Torsten Hoefler
AUTHOR(S):Esam El-Araby, Ozlem Kilic, Vinh Dang
ROOM:East Entrance
ABSTRACT:
Detecting concealed objects such as weapons behind cluttered media is essential for security applications. Terahertz frequencies are usually employed for imaging in security checkpoints due to their safe non-ionizing properties for humans. Interferometric images are constructed based on the complex correlation function of the received electric fields from the medium of interest. Interferometric imaging, however, is computationally intensive which makes it impractical for real time requirements. Therefore, it is essential to have efficient implementations of the algorithm using HPC platforms. In this paper, we exploit the capabilities of a 13-node GPU-accelerated cluster using CUDA and MVAPICH2 environments for electromagnetic terahertz interferometric imaging through cluttered media. With efficient load balancing, the experimental results demonstrate the performance gain achieved in comparison to conventional platforms. The results also show potential scalability characteristics for larger HPC systems. This work will be presented in the poster session in the format of a short PowerPoint presentation.
Chair/Author Details:
Torsten Hoefler (Chair) - ETH Zurich
Esam El-Araby - Catholic University of America
Ozlem Kilic - Catholic University of America
Vinh Dang - Catholic University of America
Click here to download .ics calendar file
Click here to download .vcs calendar file
Click here to add event to your Google Calendar
Imaging Through Cluttered Media Using Electromagnetic Interferometry on a Hardware-Accelerated High-Performance Cluster
SESSION: Research Poster Reception
EVENT TYPE:
TIME: 5:15PM - 7:00PM
SESSION CHAIR: Torsten Hoefler
AUTHOR(S):Esam El-Araby, Ozlem Kilic, Vinh Dang
ROOM:East Entrance
ABSTRACT:
Detecting concealed objects such as weapons behind cluttered media is essential for security applications. Terahertz frequencies are usually employed for imaging in security checkpoints due to their safe non-ionizing properties for humans. Interferometric images are constructed based on the complex correlation function of the received electric fields from the medium of interest. Interferometric imaging, however, is computationally intensive which makes it impractical for real time requirements. Therefore, it is essential to have efficient implementations of the algorithm using HPC platforms. In this paper, we exploit the capabilities of a 13-node GPU-accelerated cluster using CUDA and MVAPICH2 environments for electromagnetic terahertz interferometric imaging through cluttered media. With efficient load balancing, the experimental results demonstrate the performance gain achieved in comparison to conventional platforms. The results also show potential scalability characteristics for larger HPC systems. This work will be presented in the poster session in the format of a short PowerPoint presentation.
Chair/Author Details:
Torsten Hoefler (Chair) - ETH Zurich
Esam El-Araby - Catholic University of America
Ozlem Kilic - Catholic University of America
Vinh Dang - Catholic University of America
Click here to download .ics calendar file