Did you ever wanted to make the 3D holograms from Star Wars movies real? Here is your opportunity: Capturing, encoding and displaying natural 3D scenes in real-time requires large camera arrays and massive processing power. At Simula Research we are currently building a massively-parallel framework for 3D multiview video-signal processing. To achieve ultra-low latency, the processing framework may take advantage of the high-speed and low-latency interconnects in a new InfiniBand cluster installed at our laboratory.

The goal of your master thesis is to explore how our framework can make use of InfiniBand interconnects for improved performance. You will have to design, implement and assess the performance of your ideas. We expect basic operating systems and networking knowledge, good programmings skills in C and C++ and the ambition to work constantly on a challenging task.

What you will do:

• You will design a set of optimizations for distributed video-signal processing over InfiniBand.

• You will implement and assess the performance of your suggested optimizations using the OpenFabrics software stack.

What you will learn:

• You will learn about efficient video processing of high definition video.

• You will obtain a good understanding of the challenges and solutions of analysing performance in a high performance network.

• You will get to know the InfiniBand architecture, a state of the art high performance networking technology.

References:

• The InfiniBand® Trade Association
• The OpenFabrics Alliance
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