On the Optimization of Resource Utilization in Distributed Multimedia Applications

—The application and research area of Multimedia Content Analysis (MMCA) considers all aspects of the automated extraction of new knowledge from large multimedia data streams and archives. In recent years, there has been a tremendous growth in the MMCA application domain (for real-time and off-line execution scenarios alike), and this growth is likely to continue in the near future. Multimedia applications operated in a realtime environment pose very strict requirements on the obtained processing times, while off-line applications have to perform within ’tolerable’ time frames. To meet these requirements, largescale multimedia applications typically are being executed on Grid systems consisting of large collections of compute clusters. For optimized use of resources, it is essential to determine the optimal number of compute nodes per cluster, properly dealing with the perceived computation versus communication ratio. This ratio generally depends on the characteristics of the app...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: R. Yang, Robert D. van der Mei, D. Roubos, Frank J. Seinstra, Ger Koole
• Keywords: CCGRID 2008, Cluster Computing, Compute Nodes, MMCA Application Domain, Multimedia Applications