Qualitative Precipitation Estimation from Satellite Data Based on Distributed Domain-Specific Architecture

Table 2

Research work on heterogeneous distributed embedded systems in many areas.

Study area	Architecture	CPU/GPU	Memory	OS	Parallel technique
Energy-efficient scheduling algorithms [17]	Cluster	Cortex-A20	RAM 1GB	Debian 4.7.2-5	Directed acyclic graph (DAG)
Feature extraction via genetic programming [18]	Heterogeneous microprocessor	CPU, feature extraction accelerator (FEA), SVMA	96 KB of on-chip SRAM	N/A	Vector processing
Cyber operations [19]	Cluster	ARM and epiphany	8 GB microSD card and 500 GB USB hard drive	Linux	OpenMP and MPI
Object detection framework [20]	Cluster	Dual-core ARM	32 KB	N/A	MPI
GFLink for big data [21]	Cluster	Intel Core i5-4590 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750, NVIDIA Tesla C2050, NVIDIA Tesla 72 K20, NVIDIA Tesla P100	RAM 16 GB	N/A	Task manager