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A distributed multi-GPU system for high speed electron microscopic tomographic reconstruction

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Full resolution electron microscopic tomographic (EMT) reconstruction of large-scale tilt series requires significant computing power. The desire to perform multiple cycles of iterative reconstruction and realignment dramatically increases the pressing need to improve reconstruction performance. This has motivated us to develop a distributed multi-GPU (graphics processing unit) system to provide the required computing power for rapid constrained, iterative reconstructions of very large three-dimensional (3D) volumes. The participating GPUs reconstruct segments of the volume in parallel, and subsequently, the segments are assembled to form the complete 3D volume. Owing to its power and versatility, the CUDA (NVIDIA, USA) platform was selected for GPU implementation of the EMT reconstruction. For a system containing 10 GPUs provided by 5 GTX295 cards, 10 cycles of SIRT reconstruction for a tomogram of 4096(2) × 512 voxels from an input tilt series containing 122 projection images of 4096(2) pixels (single precision float) takes a total of 1845 s of which 1032 s are for computation with the remainder being the system overhead. The same system takes only 39 s total to reconstruct 1024(2) × 256 voxels from 122 1024(2) pixel projections. While the system overhead is non-trivial, performance analysis indicates that adding extra GPUs to the system would lead to steadily enhanced overall performance. Therefore, this system can be easily expanded to generate superior computing power for very large tomographic reconstructions and especially to empower iterative cycles of reconstruction and realignment.

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  • Noel ve diğerlerinin çalışmasında konik ışınlı bilgisayarlı tomografi ile 3B görüntüler elde edilmektedir.

    “Konik ışınlı (cone beam) bilgisayarlı (computed) tomografi ile 3B görüntüler elde edilmektedir.”

    From GPU Programlamada CUDA Platformu Kullanılan Paralel Görüntü İşleme Çalışmalarının İncelenmesi (2020) · cites this paper as [23]

    The paper does reconstruct 3D volumes (Section 5), but it describes the method as electron microscopic tomography using a transmission electron microscope. Section 3 specifies a parallel-beam projection assumption, contrary to the attribution of cone-beam computed tomography. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Noel ve diğerleri [23] 2010 yılında ağırlıklandırılmış filtrelenmiş geriye izdüşüm ile görüntü geriçatma işlemini CUDA kullanarak çift hassasiyetli kayan noktalı mimari ve basit mimari ile uygulamışlardır.

    “Çalışmada ağırlıklandırılmış filtrelenmiş geriye izdüşüm ile görüntü geriçatma işlemi CUDA kullanarak çift hassasiyetli kayan noktalı mimari ve basit mimari ile uygulanmaktadır.”

    From GPU Programlamada CUDA Platformu Kullanılan Paralel Görüntü İşleme Çalışmalarının İncelenmesi (2020) · cites this paper as [23]

    The Introduction and §4 describe CUDA-based tomographic reconstruction, supporting that part of the claim. But §2 identifies the paper’s own methods as iterative SIRT and SART, not weighted filtered back-projection; §5 says its input and output data are single-precision, not double-precision. The paper also describes a distributed multi-GPU system rather than a simple architecture. (LLM, conf=0.91)

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  • İncelenen görüntü geriçatma çalışmalarında ileri ve geri izdüşüm yöntemi CUDA ile paralelleştirmede en çok kullanılan yöntemdir.

    “İncelenen çalışmalarda görüntü geriçatmada ileri ve geri izdüşüm yönteminin CUDA ile paralelleştirmede en çok kullanılan yöntem olduğu görülmektedir [22, 23, 24, 25].”

    From GPU Programlamada CUDA Platformu Kullanılan Paralel Görüntü İşleme Çalışmalarının İncelenmesi (2020) · cites this paper as [23]

    Sections 3 and 4 (page numbers unavailable) describe forward- and back-projection as parallelized computations in this paper’s CUDA reconstruction system. The paper supports this as an example of the approach, but does not establish that it is the most commonly used method across the studies examined by the citing authors. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Noel ve diğerlerinin çalışmasında çift hassasiyetli kayan noktalı mimaride, basit mimari ile karşılaştırıldığında %60 oranında hızlanma görülmüştür.

    “Çift hassasiyetli kayan noktalı mimaride, basit mimari ile karşılaştırıldığında %60 oranında hızlanma görülmüştür.”

    From GPU Programlamada CUDA Platformu Kullanılan Paralel Görüntü İşleme Çalışmalarının İncelenmesi (2020) · cites this paper as [23]

    The System verification and performance tests section reports a nearly seven-fold speedup when the system is expanded to 10 GPUs, but does not compare double-precision and simple architectures. Searches for double precision, single precision, and a 60% speedup found no passage supporting the claimed comparison. (LLM, conf=0.76)

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  • Noel ve diğerlerinin çalışmasında standart yöntemlerle 256x256x256 boyutlarındaki bir görüntünün geriçatımı 25 dakikanın üzerinde zaman almaktadır.

    “Standart yöntemlerle 256x256x256 boyutlarındaki bir görüntünün geriçatımı 25 dakikanın üzerinde zaman almaktadır.”

    From GPU Programlamada CUDA Platformu Kullanılan Paralel Görüntü İşleme Çalışmalarının İncelenmesi (2020) · cites this paper as [23]

    The performance tests (Section 5; page unavailable) report reconstruction times for GPU systems and different volume sizes, not a conventional-method reconstruction of a 256 × 256 × 256 volume. Searches for that size and a time exceeding 25 minutes found no passage establishing the claimed comparison. (LLM, conf=0.77)

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Authors
Zheng, S. Q., Branlund, E., Kesthelyi, B., Braunfeld, M. B., Cheng, Y., Sedat, J. W., & Agard, D. A.
Affiliations
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Agard, David A.
Venue
Ultramicroscopy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2011-07
Volume
111
Issue
8
Pages
1137-1143
ISSN
0304-3991 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2096397551
Cited by
13
References
19
Citations by year
2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
FWCI
1.87
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Ultramicroscopy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
NIH (1S10RR026814-01)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Structural Biology › Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Hardware and Architecture › Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques
Keywords
electron tomography, tomographic reconstruction, multi-GPU computing, distributed computing, CUDA, iterative reconstruction, SIRT, tilt series, GPU parallel processing, volumetric reconstruction
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Animals, Computer Communication Networks, Computer Graphics, Drosophila, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Centrosome, Imaging, Three-Dimensional, Electron Microscope Tomography

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