Open AccessHORN-6 special-purpose clustered computing system for electroholography
Author(s) -
Yasuyuki Ichihashi,
Hirotaka Nakayama,
Tomoyoshi Ito,
Nobuyuki Masuda,
Tomoyoshi Shimobaba,
Atsushi Shiraki,
Toshiharu Sugie
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Danish
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.17.013895
Subject(s) - pentium , holography , computer science , frame rate , personal computer , french horn , computer generated holography , optics , computer graphics (images) , software , computer vision , artificial intelligence , physics , computer hardware , acoustics , parallel computing , programming language
We developed the HORN-6 special-purpose computer for holography. We designed and constructed the HORN-6 board to handle an object image composed of one million points and constructed a cluster system composed of 16 HORN-6 boards. Using this HORN-6 cluster system, we succeeded in creating a computer-generated hologram of a three-dimensional image composed of 1,000,000 points at a rate of 1 frame per second, and a computer-generated hologram of an image composed of 100,000 points at a rate of 10 frames per second, which is near video rate, when the size of a computer-generated hologram is 1,920 x 1,080. The calculation speed is approximately 4,600 times faster than that of a personal computer with an Intel 3.4-GHz Pentium 4 CPU.