INF5063 Asymmetric Multicore Challenge 2009
The Asymmetric multicore challenge is a competition open for students in the INF5063 course. Each contestant compete in encoding the tractor video as fast as possible on the GPU and the Cell Broadband Engine. Contestants may submit an entry to one or both architectures.
Rules:
- Entries are due Thursday, November 26th by noon (11:59)
- Submit your entry to inf5063@ifi.uio.no
- Only one entry per group for each architecture.
- Results will be announced in the session of November 27th, and both the winner of the GPU architecture and CBE architecture competition will be awarded.
- Encoded video must not deviate significantly from the reference encoder (precode). This includes both output file size and subjective video quality. Failure to comply will result in a time penalty.
- Entries are benchmarked on machines with solid-state disks to ensure that your submission is not limited by a slow disk.
To check if the output video quality differs from the reference implementation, you can use the psnr-script included in the mplayer source.
Only one PS3 and one GPU machine are available with an SSD disk. You can use these for testing purposes, but they should be used exclusively to avoid other groups from interfering with your benchmark. Please only book single-hour slots on these machines, so everyone can use them.
Competition Benchmark Machines:
gore.ndlab.net (Cell Broadband Engine Architecture, SSD Disk) clinton.ndlab.net (GPU, GeForce GTX 280, Compute Capability 1.3, RAM Disk)
Winners:
The INF5063 team wants to congratulate the winners of the ”2009 INF5063 Asymmetric Multicore Challenge”
Cell Broadband Engine:
- Øystein Gyland & Ståle Bordal Kristoffersen
nVIDIA GeForce GPU:
- Jonathan Lunde Lillesæter & Martin Ertsås