@InProceedings{messerli:tomographic,
  author = {V. Messerli, B. Gennart, R.~D. Hersch},
  title = {Performances of the {PS$^2$} Parallel Storage and Processing System
  for Tomographic Image Visualization},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on
  Distributed Computer Systems},
  year = {1997},
  month = {December},
  pages = {514--522},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  address = {Seoul, Korea},
  URL = {http://diwww.epfl.ch/w3lsp/pub/publications/ps2/potppsapsftiv.html},
  keywords = {parallel computing, parallel I/O, parallel I/O application, image
  processing, pario-bib},
  abstract = {We propose a new approach for developing parallel I/O-
  andcompute-intensive applications. At a high level of abstraction, a macro
  data flow description describes how processing and disk access operations are
  combined. This high-level description (CAP) is precompiled into compilable
  and executable C++ source language. Parallel file system components specified
  by CAP are offered as reusable CAP operations. Low-level parallel file system
  components can, thanks to the CAP formalism, be combined with processing
  operations in order to yield efficient pipelined parallel I/O and compute
  intensive programs. The underlying parallel system is based on commodity
  components (PentiumPro processors, Fast Ethernet) and runs on top of
  WindowsNT. The CAP-based parallel program development approach is applied to
  the development of an I/O and processing intensive tomographic 3D image
  visualization application. Configurations range from a single PentiumPro
  1-disk system to a four PentiumPro 27-disk system. We show that performances
  scale well when increasing the number of processors and disks. With the
  largest configuration, the system is able to extract in parallel and project
  into the display space between three and four 512x512 images per second. The
  images may have any orientation and are extracted from a 100 MByte 3D
  tomographic image striped over the available set of disks.},
  comment = {See also messerli:jimage, gennart:CAP, vetsch:visiblehuman,
  messerli:thesis.}
}