On my way back from a conference

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

I have been presenting a poster on a new image processing algorithm suitable for dealing with HUGE images from remote sensing, electron microscopy, and large astronomical surveys. We are talking several tens of gigapixels to terapixels. We can now handle images way larger than what fits into memory of a single computer, and reached 103x speed-up on 128 processors.

As can be seen, I donned a suitably nerdy t-shirt. I bet most people didn't read what was ACTUALLY written on it

 

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

BTW, in terms of actual speed: a 153.6 Gpixel image took 7 minutes to process on 128 processors of our cluster. I am working on the option of using even more.

[DaveS]

He he, yes I did read it, and yes I do get the reference. Does that make me a nerd (But hopefully not knurd)?

Sounds a very interesting algorithm.

[RichM63]

Sounds very interesting.

LOL no problem, currently I'm running on the speed of a 'molehill'.

Rich

[johnfosteruk]

Interesting work Michael, amazing what we can do now, but I don't want to be hexing it so I'll say no more.

 

[Knight of Clear Skies]

21 hours ago, michael.h.f.wilkinson said:

I have been presenting a poster on a new image processing algorithm suitable for dealing with HUGE images from remote sensing, electron microscopy, and large astronomical surveys. We are talking several tens of gigapixels to terapixels. We can now handle images way larger than what fits into memory of a single computer, and reached 103x speed-up on 128 processors.

I hope your solution doesn't involve feeding illegal substances to the worker bees.

[Mognet]

I can appreciate the t-shirt even if I can't understand the technical aspects of the poster and presentation!

It's thanks to Terry Pratchett that I always think of Pleiades as being the 'small faint boring group of stars' constellation