<p>This paper presents techniques for speeding up commonly used algorithms forbounding volume (BV) computation, such as the AABB, sphere and k-DOP. Byexploiting the possibilities of parallelismin modern processors, the result exceedsthe expected theoretical result. The methods focus on data-level-parallelism(DLP) using Intel’s SSE instructions, for operations on 4 parallel independentsingle precision floating point values, with a theoretical speed-up factor of 4 ondata throughput. Still, a speed-up between 7–9 are shown in the computation ofAABBs and k-DOPs. For the computation of tight fitting spheres the speed-upfactor halts at approximately 4 due to a limiting data dependency. In addition,further parallelization by multithreading algorithms on multi-core CPUs showsspeed-up factors of 14 on 2 cores and reaching 25 on 4 cores, compared to nonparallel algorithms.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:mdh-9439 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Winberg, Olov, Karlsson, Mattias |
| Publisher | Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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