Implementation of the Principal Component Analysis onto High-Performance
  Computer Facilities for Hyperspectral Dimensionality Reduction: Results and
  Comparisons
E. Martel R. Lazcano J. Lopez D. Madroñal R. Salvador S. Lopez E. Juarez R. Guerra C. Sanz R. Sarmiento
Dimensionality reduction represents a critical preprocessing step in order to
increase the efficiency and the performance of many hyperspectral imaging
algorithms. However, dimensionality reduction algorithms, such as the Principal
Component Analysis (PCA), suffer from their computationally demanding nature,
becoming advisable for their implementation onto high-performance computer
architectures for applications under strict latency constraints. This work
presents the implementation of the PCA algorithm onto two different
high-performance devices, namely, an NVIDIA Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and
a Kalray manycore, uncovering a highly valuable set of tips and tricks in order
to take full advantage of the inherent parallelism of these high-performance
computing platforms, and hence, reducing the time that is required to process a
given hyperspectral image. Moreover, the achieved results obtained with
different hyperspectral images have been compared with the ones that were
obtained with a field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based implementation of
the PCA algorithm that has been recently published, providing, for the first
time in the literature, a comprehensive analysis in order to highlight the pros
and cons of each option.