Title
Proteus: a reconfigurable computational network for computer vision
Abstract
The Proteus architecture is a highly parallel, multiple instruction, multiple data machine (MIMD) optimized for large granularity tasks such as machine vision and image processing. The system can achieve 20 gigaflops (80 gigaflops peak). It accepts data via multiple serial links at a rate of up to 640 MB/S. The system employs a hierarchical reconfigurable interconnection network with the highest level being a circuit-switchedenhanced hypercube, serial interconnection network for internal data transfers. The system is designed to use 256 to 1024 RISC processors. The processors use 1-MB externalread/write allocating caches for reduced multiprocessor contention. The system detects, locates, and replaces faulty subsystems using redundant hardware to facilitatefault tolerance. The parallelism is directly controllable through an advanced software system for partitioning, scheduling, and development. System software includes a translator for the INSIGHT language, a parallel debugger, lowand high-level simulators, and a message-passing system for all control needs. Image-processing application software includes a variety of point operators, neighborhood operators, convolution, and the mathematical morphology operations of binary and gray-scale dilation, erosion, opening, and closing.
Year
DOI
Venue
1995
10.1007/BF01213474
Mach. Vis. Appl.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Proteus,INSIGHT,Reconfigurable computational network,MIMD,Enhanced hypercube,Parallel computing
Journal
8
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0932-8092
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
14
18
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert M. Haralick1102622605.93
Arun K. Somani22041216.71
craig m wittenbrink330.49
randy a johnson4111.57
kathleen a cooper530.49
Linda G. Shapiro62603847.56
Ihsin T. Phillips735537.57
Jenq-Neng Hwang81675206.57
wahleung cheung930.49
Yung Hsi Yao1030.49
Chung-Ho Chen1125536.39
Larry Yang1292.31
Brian Daugherty13192.29
Bob Lorbeski1430.49
Kent Loving1530.49
Tom Miller1630.49
Larye Parkins1730.49
Steve Soos1830.49