High-Performance Computing and Optimization (CAPO)
High-Performance Computing and Optimization research line (CAPO, acronym from the Spanish "Computación de Altas Prestaciones y Optimización") starts while studing different real-time image and video processing problems and, mainly, to the pioneer use in Spain of graphics hardware as a co-processor to the CPU in computer vision applications.
Since the end of the 90's computer graphics arquitectures have been exposed to programmers offering large amounts of transistors for processing. Some researchers around the world have demonstrated the use of graphics processors to general purpose applications obtaining higher performance than using a traditional platform based on CPU solutions. From the GAVAB group we work to promote new consumer arquitectures for high-performance processing, mainly in the field of computer vision, image processing and video processing.
Members
Some of the most active members of the CAPO line are:
- Antonio Sanz Montemayor
- Raúl Cabido Valladolid
- Juan José Pantrigo Fernández
- Bryson R. Payne
- Abraham Duarte Muñoz
Topics
- High-performance image processing
- Real-time video processing
- General purpose computation using graphics hardware: GPUs
- General purpose computation using consumer multiprocessors: Cell