Jornadas de Seguimiento de Proyectos, 2007 Programa Nacional de Tecnoloǵıas Informáticas High Performance Computing. Image and Video processing, Global optimization and Matrix computation.

This project addresses a set of problems that require intensive computation and that come from different scientific and technological fields. In these computationally expen-sive applications, efficient approaches are paramount for the solution of the problems in practical terms. The problems to be tackled in this project are: image processing applied to determination of the structure of biological specimens in electron microscopy; Coding and compression for progressive transmission of image and video; Nonlinear programming techniques and new global optimization (both deterministic and stochastic) methods for solving real problems; Numerical methods for the simulation of complex systems that are described by means of integral-differential equations. The research to be carried out in this project is focused from different perspectives: (1) development of novel specific methods to face the problems above mentioned; (2) Analysis, design and development of distributed computing models under heterogeneous multiprocessor systems (e.g. dynamic load bal-ancing, hybrid computation paradigms, such as the combination multithreading-message passing, etc.) to efficiently deal with the real applications addressed in this project; (3) Implementation of the developed methods, according to the distributed computing models, to be executed on heterogeneous parallel environments