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Table 4 Percent of tasks assigned to CPU and GPU according to the scheduling policy

From: Scalable analysis of Big pathology image data cohorts using efficient methods and high-performance computing strategies

Pipeline Operation

Scheduling policy

FCFS

PATS

CPU

GPU

CPU

GPU

Red Blood Cell Detection

42.7

57.3

20.2

79.8

Morphological Open

42.5

57.5

96.6

3.4

Reconstruct to Nucleus

42.6

57.4

8.9

91.1

Area Threshold

42.7

57.3

100

0

Fill Holes

43.2

56.8

89.8

10.2

Pre-Watershed

42.1

57.9

0

100

Watershed

42.2

57.8

10.2

89.8

Black and White Label

43.1

56.9

89.5

10.5

Features Computation

43.2

56.8

9.3

90.7

  1. While FCFS assigns all pipeline operations with similar proportion to CPU and GPU, PATS preferably assigns to the GPU operations that attain higher speedups on this device. Thus, PATS better utilizes the hybrid system