INF5063 Asymmetric Multicore Challenge 2010
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:
- Both GPU and Cell entries are eligible.
- Submit your entry to inf5063@ifi.uio.no
- 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.
- Results will be announced in the session on December 3rd, and both the winner of the GPU architecture and CBE architecture competition will be awarded.
- Entries will be benchmarked on bush.ndlab.net and standard PS3 using the tractor sequence.
- To focus the competition on architectural optimizations, and not algorithms, exhaustive search must be used (as in precode)
- Quality parameters should be the same as in precode.
To check if the output video quality differs from the reference implementation, you can use the psnr-script included in the mplayer source.
Winners:
The INF5063 team wants to congratulate the winners of the "2010 INF5063 Asymmetric Multicore Challenge"