Partitioned k-Exclusion Real-Time Locking Protocol Motivated by Multicore Multi-GPU Systems

Graphic processing units （GPUs） have been widely recognized as cost-efficient co-processors with acceptable size, weight, and power consumption. However, adopting GPUs in real-time systems is still challenging, due to the lack in framework for real-time analysis. In order to guarantee real-time requirements while maintaining system utilization ~in modern heterogeneous systems, such as multicore multi-GPU systems, a novel suspension-based k-exclusion real-time locking protocol and the associated suspension-aware schedulability analysis are proposed. The proposed protocol provides a synchronization framework that enables multiple GPUs to be efficiently integrated in multicore real-time systems. Comparative evaluations show that the proposed methods improve upon the existing work in terms of schedulability.

The Implementation of Graphic Display of FAS

The principle of the fire alarm system and the implementation techniques of its computer graphic display are presented. With the help of the designing thoughts and technology of OOP, a Fire Alarm System (FAS) has been developed by using visual C++ language. The system has been put into use in many important buildings and has played an important role in monitoring and controlling the fire.

Power equipment vibration visualization using intelligent sensing method based on event-sensing principle

Vibration measurements can be used to evaluate the operation status of power equipment and are widely applied in equipment quality inspection and fault identification.Event-sensing technology can sense the change in surface light intensity caused by object vibration and provide a visual description of vibration behavior.Based on the analysis of the principle underlying the transformation of vibration behavior into event flow data by an event sensor,this paper proposes an algorithm to reconstruct event flow data into a relationship correlating vibration displacement and time to extract the amplitude-frequency characteristics of the vibration signal.A vibration measurement test platform is constructed,and feasibility and effectiveness tests are performed for the vibration motor and other power equipment.The results show that event-sensing technology can effectively perceive the surface vibration behavior of power and provide a wide dynamic range.Furthermore,the vibration measurement and visualization algorithm for power equipment constructed using this technology offers high measurement accuracy and efficiency.The results of this study provide a new noncontact and visual method for locating vibrations and performing amplitude-frequency analysis on power equipment.

Architecture of the Graphics System for Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems

This paper presents a new architecture of a graphics system for microkernel operating systems,including real-time operating systems.The following major parts of the architecture are presented:a user-level subsystem responsible for interaction with user applications;a bottom-level subsystem providing the functionality for graphics drivers,such as managing graphics output,video memory management,etc.;a kernel-level subsystem providing interaction with the kernel,and performing low-level operations,such as working with physical memory,processes,etc.The mechanisms of interaction of user applications with the user level of the graphics system,as well as interaction of the different levels of the graphics subsystem are presented.The paper pays much attention to various approaches to testing:the use of unit testing,testing using hardware and software emulators.Another important characteristic of a graphics system is its performance,in particular the performance of low-level operations such as memory allocation:the developed architecture suggests using a separate memory allocator which is faster than standard memory allocation functions.Comparison of the performances of graphics system implementation for microkernel real-time operating system and graphics server Xorg is presented,showing significant superiority of the proposed architecture in a number of work scenarios.

TIME-DOMAIN INTERPOLATION ON GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT

The signal processing speed of spectral domain optical coherence tomography(SD-OCT)has become a bottleneck in a lot of medical applications.Recently,a time-domain interpolation method was proposed.This method can get better signal-to-noise ratio(SNR)but much-reduced signal processing time in SD-OCT data processing as compared with the commonly used zeropadding interpolation method.Additionally,the resampled data can be obtained by a few data and coefficients in the cutoff window.Thus,a lot of interpolations can be performed simultaneously.So,this interpolation method is suitable for parallel computing.By using graphics processing unit(GPU)and the compute unified device architecture(CUDA)program model,time-domain interpolation can be accelerated significantly.The computing capability can be achieved more than 250,000 A-lines,200,000 A-lines,and 160,000 A-lines in a second for 2,048 pixel OCT when the cutoff length is L=11,L=21,and L=31,respectively.A frame SD-OCT data(400A-lines×2,048 pixel per line)is acquired and processed on GPU in real time.The results show that signal processing time of SD-OCT can befinished in 6.223 ms when the cutoff length L=21,which is much faster than that on central processing unit(CPU).Real-time signal processing of acquired data can be realized.

Real-time pupil tracking backlight system for holographic 3D display(Invited Paper)

We propose an automatic three-dimensionM （3D） pupil tracking backlight system for holographic 3D display system with large image size and full-parallax accommodation effect. The proposed tracking module is applied to a holographic 3D display system with two sets of directional holographic imaging module composed of 2 × 2 large scale lens array and 22-inch high-resolution liquid crystal display 3D panel. System architecture is described and experimental results are presented.

Model Implementation and Analysis of a True Three-dimensional Display System

To model a true three-dimensional(3D)display system,we introduced the method of voxel molding to obtain the stereoscopic imaging space of the system.For the distribution of each voxel,we proposed a four-dimensional(4D)Givone–Roessor(GR)model for state-space representation—that is,we established a local state-space model with the 3D position and one-dimensional time coordi-nates to describe the system.First,we extended the original elementary operation approach to a 4D condition and proposed the implementation steps of the realiza-tion matrix of the 4D GR model.Then,we described the working process of a true 3D display system,analyzed its real-time performance,introduced the fixed-point quantization model to simplify the system matrix,and derived the conditions for the global asymptotic stability of the system after quantization.Finally,we provided an example to prove the true 3D display system’s feasibility by simulation.The GR-model-representation method and its implementation steps proposed in this paper simplified the system’s mathematical expression and facilitated the microcon-troller software implementation.Real-time and stability analyses can be used widely to analyze and design true 3D display systems.

Real-time electroholography using a single spatial light modulator and a cluster of graphics-processing units connected by a gigabit Ethernet network

Systems containing multiple graphics-processing-unit(GPU)clusters are difficult to use for real-time electroholography when using only a single spatial light modulator because the transfer of the computer-generated hologram data between the GPUs is bottlenecked.To overcome this bottleneck,we propose a rapid GPU packing scheme that significantly reduces the volume of the required data transfer.The proposed method uses a multi-GPU cluster system connected with a cost-effective gigabit Ethernet network.In tests,we achieved real-time electroholography of a three-dimensional(3D)video presenting a point-cloud 3D object made up of approximately 200,000 points.

Real-time color holographic video reconstruction using multiple-graphics processing unit cluster acceleration and three spatial light modulators

We demonstrate real-time three-dimensional(3D)color video using a color electroholographic system with a cluster of multiple-graphics processing units(multi-GPU)and three spatial light modulators(SLMs)corresponding respectively to red,green,and blue(RGB)-colored reconstructing lights.The multi-GPU cluster has a computer-generated hologram(CGH)display node containing a GPU,for displaying calculated CGHs on SLMs,and four CGH calculation nodes using 12 GPUs.The GPUs in the CGH calculation node generate CGHs corresponding to RGB reconstructing lights in a 3D color video using pipeline processing.Real-time color electroholography was realized for a 3D color object comprising approximately 21,000 points per color.

Real-time spatiotemporal division multiplexing electroholography for 1,200,000 object points using multiple-graphics processing unit cluster

Computationally, the calculation of computer-generated holograms is extremely expensive, and the image quality deteriorates when reconstructing three-dimensional(3 D) holographic video from a point-cloud model comprising a huge number of object points. To solve these problems, we implement herein a spatiotemporal division multiplexing method on a cluster system with 13 GPUs connected by a gigabit Ethernet network.A performance evaluation indicates that the proposed method can realize a real-time holographic video of a3 D object comprising ~1,200,000 object points. These results demonstrate a clear 3 D holographic video at32.7 frames per second reconstructed from a 3 D object comprising 1,064,462 object points.

Architecture of Graphics System with 3D Acceleration Support for Embedded Operating Systems

An increasing number of tasks now require the use of hardware accelerators to reduce the time required for computation and display the computational results.This paper presents a new graphics system architecture for operating systems(OSs)with microkernel architecture,including real-time OSs.The proposed system architecture provides capabilities for displaying graphical images on various information display devices and for accelerating graphical operations on GPU.The architecture of the graphics system uses a concept of allocators to manage system and video memory,provides an abstraction of memory operations with a single interface for video memory management,and simplifies memory handling where incorrect operation is the cause of many failures.A comparison between the performance of a real-time OS and Linux OS implementing the graphics system using the example of a glmark2 benchmark is presented,thereby the superiority of the proposed architecture in several scenarios is demonstrated.

基于C8051F的功放监测与显示系统设计

针对导航定位系统对功率放大器连续长时间工作的要求,提出了功率放大器监控与显示系统应具备的控制、检测和显示功能,以C8051F系列单片机作为主控器,设计了功率放大器的监测与显示系统。给出了系统硬件原理框图,阐述了系统软件的组成、相关程序流程、菜单式显示拓扑结构以及冗余系统主/备功放切换控制原理,实现了功放的本地与远程控制、功放工作状态和实时参数的中文菜单式显示以及功放的冗余切换功能,保证了功放在导航定位系统中长期不间断地可靠工作。

虚拟现实系统及应用

虚拟现实技术是一种模拟人在自然环境中的听、视、动等行为的高级互动技术.虚拟现实系统通过头盔方式的三维立体显示器、数据手套及立体声耳机等设备使人能完全沉浸在计算机创造的图形世界里.它是人工智能、计算机图形学、人机接口技术、网络技术、并行技术等多种技术的集成.目前已在科学可视化、飞行模拟、医学、CAD CAM、教育、娱乐等领域获得了广泛的应用.

高功率固态微波放大器监控系统设计

根据对高功率放大器监控系统的要求,选择C8051F单片机作为控制器,利用单片机本身的SMBus串行总线实现了监控与数据采集系统之间的数据交换,以及与远控系统之间的控制切换。使用TH25632A图形点阵式液晶显示模块作为功率放大器工作状态和参数显示器,使得监控人员随时可以方便、直观地了解功率放大器的工作状态和实时参数,实现了冗余功率放大器的在线切换。给出了系统硬件原理框图、串行数据总线收、发子程序流程图。

基于ActiveX控件技术图像浏览器的设计

简单介绍了GdViewerProAcfiveX控件的功能、属性和方法程序，重点阐述了在VisualFoxPro中应用GdViewerProActiveX控件设计图像浏览器的界面组成、属性设置和事件代码设计。

瓦楞纸板展示架的设计

介绍瓦楞纸板展示架的分类和常见结构形态,初步提出瓦楞纸板展示架设计的"六步法",就概念设计、结构设计和平面装潢设计3个方面进行了重点阐述。

牛体外发育胚胎特定阶段差异表达基因的研究(英文)

[目的]研究不同发育时期牛体外受精胚胎在基因表达模式上的差异。[方法]利用单个胚胎mRNA差异显示技术,对单个8细胞期胚胎与囊胚进行mRNA差异显示,获得1条特异表达条带,对其进行克隆、测序,并与GenBank进行对比。[结果]该序列与牛核糖体蛋白L31基因(ribosom alprotein L31,RPL31)具有99%的同源性。采用实时定量PCR技术检测8细胞期和囊胚期胚胎RPL31的mRNA表达量,结果表明,RPL31在8细胞期胚胎的相对表达量为囊胚期胚胎的3.2倍。[结论]为揭示和阐明控制牛早期胚胎发育的相关机理提供依据。

Real-Time Texture Synthesis Using s-Tile Set

This paper presents a novel method of generating a set of texture tiles from samples, which can be seamlessly tiled into arbitrary size textures in real-time. Compared to existing methods, our approach is simpler and more advantageous in eliminating visual seams that may exist in each tile of the existing methods, especially when the samples have elaborate features or distinct colors. Texture tiles generated by our approach can be regarded as single-colored tiles on each orthogonal direction border, which are easier for tiling and more suitable for sentence tiling. Experimental results demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach.

Identification and Characterization of Genes Responsible for Drought Tolerance in Rice Mediated by Pseudomonas fluorescens

Drought is one of the major abiotic stresses which adversely affect crop plants limiting growth and yield potential.Structural and functional characterization of drought stress-induced genes has contributed to a better understanding of how plants respond and adapt to the drought stress.In the present study,differential display technique was employed to study the gene expression of rice plants at the reproductive stage that were subjected to drought stress by withholding water,Pseudomonas fluorescens strain(Pf1) treated plants subjected for drought stress by withholding water and control(well-watered).Differentially expressed c DNAs of six genes(COX1,PKDP,b ZIP1,AP2-EREBP,Hsp20 and COC1) were identified,cloned and sequenced.Real-time q PCR analysis showed that all the six genes were upregulated in drought-stressed plants treated with Pf1.This revealed that the remarkable influence of Pf1 colonization leads to drought tolerance at the reproductive stage.These results showed that high levels of gene expression in plants lacking adequate water can be remarkably influenced by Pf1 colonization,which might be a key element for induced systemic tolerance by microbes.

Performance Enhancements in the EAST Digital Plasma Control System

The EAST plasma control system （PCS） is in continuous development to satisfy the EAST experimental requirements. In order to realize low latency and distortion-free signal transmission between PCS and servo systems such as the poloidal field power supply, in-vessel coil power supply and real-time scope, reflective memory boards （RFM） were applied. The new hardware layout and enhanced performance are reported. Newly implemented PCS control algorithms for gas control and real-time data display are also presented.