Research Article

On the Usage of GPUs for Efficient Motion Estimation in Medical Image Sequences

Table 1

Details of systems used for evaluation.

Parameters System 1 System 2 System 3

System name C1060 GTX480 C2070
Host CPU Xeon 5110 (Harpertown) Intel Core i7 Xeon 5650 (Gulftown)
Host CPU speed 1.6 GHz 2.8 GHz 2.67 GHz
Host OS Ubuntu 10.10 (64 bit) Ubuntu 10.10 (32 bit) Ubuntu 10.10 (64 bit)
Kernel 2.6.35 2.6.31 2.6.35
Host RAM 2 GB 4 GB 24 GB
Host L1-cache 64 KB 64 KB 64 KB
Host L2-cache 4 MB 8 MB 12 MB
GPU series C1060 GTX480 C2070
Compute capability 1.3 2.0 2.0
Device memory 1 GB 4 GB 6 GB
Multiprocessors 24 16 14
Cores per MP 8 16 32
Total cores 192 512 498
GPU L1-cache 16 KB 64 KB 64 KB
(Shared memory)
GPU L2-cache N/A 128 KB 128 KB
CUDA version 4.0 3.3 3.2
Compiler flags -O3 –arch = sm_13 -O3 –arch = sm_2.0 -O3 –arch = sm_2.0