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ArticleAdvanced structural and chemical imaging2017

Trace: a high-throughput tomographic reconstruction engine for large-scale datasets.

Tekin Bicer, Doğa Gürsoy, Vincent De Andrade, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, William Scullin, Francesco De Carlo, Ian T Foster

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Tekin BicerMathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8428-5159
Doğa GürsoyX-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439 USA.
Vincent De AndradeX-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439 USA.
Rajkumar KettimuthuMathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439 USA.
William ScullinArgonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439 USA.
Francesco De CarloX-Ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439 USA.
Ian T FosterMathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 South Cass Ave., Lemont, IL 60439 USA.

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Abstract

backgroundModern synchrotron light sources and detectors produce data at such scale and complexity that large-scale computation is required to unleash their full power. One of the widely used imaging techniques that generates data at tens of gigabytes per second is computed tomography (CT). Although CT experiments result in rapid data generation, the analysis and reconstruction of the collected data may require hours or even days of computation time with a medium-sized workstation, which hinders the scientific progress that relies on the results of analysis.

methodsWe present Trace, a data-intensive computing engine that we have developed to enable high-performance implementation of iterative tomographic reconstruction algorithms for parallel computers. Trace provides fine-grained reconstruction of tomography datasets using both (thread-level) shared memory and (process-level) distributed memory parallelization. Trace utilizes a special data structure called replicated reconstruction object to maximize application performance. We also present the optimizations that we apply to the replicated reconstruction objects and evaluate them using tomography datasets collected at the Advanced Photon Source.

resultsOur experimental evaluations show that our optimizations and parallelization techniques can provide 158× speedup using 32 compute nodes (384 cores) over a single-core configuration and decrease the end-to-end processing time of a large sinogram (with 4501 × 1 × 22,400 dimensions) from 12.5 h to <5 min per iteration.

conclusionThe proposed tomographic reconstruction engine can efficiently process large-scale tomographic data using many compute nodes and minimize reconstruction times.

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PMCPMC5313579

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