BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20111116T011500Z DTEND:20111116T030000Z LOCATION:WSCC North Galleria 2nd/3rd Floors DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Parallel programming models converge on key concepts. Program syntax=0Aavoids explicitly parallel constructs like threads and data dependence=0Aguides the computation, as opposed to resource-centric models like MPI or OpenMP.=0AAside from StarSs, StarPU and recently the MAGMA and PLASMA projects encapsulate computation on data blocks in tasks.=0AThese are scheduled dynamically via a TDG.=0A=0AWe intent to demonstrate the use of StarSs in the development of the=0AIntegral Histogram (IH) and analyze the application on SMP, Cell/B.E. and GPU. As=0Aopposed to the applications for StarPU, MAGMA and PLASMA, which so far have=0Abeen limited to numerical linear algebra kernels. IH is a recently proposed preprocessing technique that constructs the histogram for rectangular=0Aregions in constant time (for e.g. object recognition, content-based image=0Aretrieval, segmentation, detection and tracking).=0ATo the best of our knowledge, IH in StarSs is the first parallel implementation of this algorithm in the literature. SUMMARY:A Portable Implementation of the Integral Histogram in StarSs PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR