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What is Loosely-Coupled Hardware Architecture

Chapter 21
Handbook of Research on Grid Technologies and Utility Computing: Concepts for Managing Large-Scale Applications
Architecture that consists of multiple separate machines each with their own processor and memory.
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Distributed Image Processing on a Blackboard System
Gerald Schaefer (Loughborough University, UK) and Roger Tait (University of Cambridge, UK)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 7
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-184-1.ch021
Abstract
Efficient approaches to computationally intensive image processing tasks are currently highly sought after. In this chapter, the authors show how a blackboard paradigm, originally developed for collaborative problem solving, can be used as an efficient and effective vehicle for distributed computation. Through the design of dedicated intelligent agents, typical image processing algorithms can be applied in parallel on multiple loosely coupled machines leading to a significant overall speedup as is verified in a series of experiments.
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