Development of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf cluster

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dc.contributor.advisorInggs, Michaelen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBennett, Thomas Gerald Harten_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-31T11:00:15Z
dc.date.available2014-07-31T11:00:15Z
dc.date.issued2003en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this dissertation is to present the development and testing of the parallelisation of a Range-Doppler SAR processor. The inherent data parallelism found in SAR data lead to the choice of using master slave parallel processor, where copies of a slave task perform the same tasks on different sets of data. However, the SAR processor that was parallelised needed to implement a corner turn without saving data to disk keeping the data set being processed distributed in memory over the nodes in the cluster. This was successfully achieved using a in-place method, thus saving valuable memory resources. Once the parallel processor was implemented some timing tests were performed, yielding a maximum speedup factor of 6.2 for an 8 slave processor system.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBennett, T. G. H. (2003). <i>Development of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf cluster</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Department of Electrical Engineering. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5247en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBennett, Thomas Gerald Hart. <i>"Development of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf cluster."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Department of Electrical Engineering, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5247en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBennett, T. 2003. Development of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf cluster. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Bennett, Thomas Gerald Hart AB - The purpose of this dissertation is to present the development and testing of the parallelisation of a Range-Doppler SAR processor. The inherent data parallelism found in SAR data lead to the choice of using master slave parallel processor, where copies of a slave task perform the same tasks on different sets of data. However, the SAR processor that was parallelised needed to implement a corner turn without saving data to disk keeping the data set being processed distributed in memory over the nodes in the cluster. This was successfully achieved using a in-place method, thus saving valuable memory resources. Once the parallel processor was implemented some timing tests were performed, yielding a maximum speedup factor of 6.2 for an 8 slave processor system. DA - 2003 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2003 T1 - Development of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf cluster TI - Development of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf cluster UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5247 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/5247
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBennett TGH. Development of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf cluster. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,Department of Electrical Engineering, 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5247en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Electrical Engineeringen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherElectrical Engineeringen_ZA
dc.titleDevelopment of a parallel SAR processor on a Beowulf clusteren_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationnameMScen_ZA
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