Efficient collaging of a large image
US8995789B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 12, 2013 |
| Grant date | Mar 31, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 5, 2033 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T1/60
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention relate to collaging image data to form a large image using high-performance computing in a parallel computing environment. The collaging of the image data includes performing an intra-node merge operation on image data such that the merged intra-node data is not written to the file system, but instead maintained in volatile processor memory. The intra-node merged data is may then be communicated in a memory-to-memory manner over a high-speed network to another node in the system for an inter-node merge operation, which limits the number of intermediate system I/O operations to perform the collaging process. Following the intra-node and inter-node merge operations, tiles representing the collaged image may be written to a file system memory for persistent storage.
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