Research Article

Distributed Parallel Endmember Extraction of Hyperspectral Data Based on Spark

Table 2

Execution time of the serial and parallel versions of the IEA method with Dataset 1.

Partition size (MB)Initialization (s)IEA (s)Total (s)Speedup (x)Percentage of initialization

Serial30.172017.682047.851.47%
Parallel (1)269.1712.33415.80428.134.782.88%
Parallel (2)134.589.00210.00219.009.354.11%
Parallel (4)67.298.67106.13114.8017.847.55%
Parallel (8)33.657.0058.4065.4031.3110.70%