Supercomputing
This page aims to
- overview installations of GRASS GIS in supercomputing (HPC, HTC) environments and related applications
- document best practices of processing big geospatial data, common mistakes and errors and how to work-around them
Overview of GRASS GIS in supercomputing environments
- GRASS GIS 8 on LUMI Supercomputer in Finland: https://docs.csc.fi/apps/grass/
- Supercomputer "Aurel", 4096 CPU cores (Power7 architecture), features GRASS GIS 7.4
- GRASS GIS in JRC's JEODPP, A versatile data-intensive computing platform for information retrieval from big geospatial data
- Hazel at NCSU (Intel Xeon based Linux cluster; GRASS GIS available since 2017)
Past:
- ROGER, the CyberGIS supercomputer at NCSA UIUC (batch compute nodes: 24x, 10 cores, 2.6 GHz, 256 GB RAM, 500 GB of local storage, cluster-wide General Parallel File System (GPFS) 4.5PB; GRASS GIS available alongside GDAL, PDAL, Geotools, and R)
Processing Practices
See page Parallel GRASS jobs for Cluster and Grid computing with parallelized code, Job scheduler, and GRASS on a cluster
See also
Related wiki pages
- https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Parallel_GRASS_jobs
- https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Working_with_GRASS_without_starting_it_explicitly
- https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Shell
- https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Performance
- https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Large_raster_data_processing
- https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Large_vector_data_processing
Presentations
- https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/geo_grass/
- https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/grass_7/
- State of GIS at the High Performance Computing Cluster (2012)
Publications
- Alvioli, M., A. C. Mondini, F. Fiorucci, M. Cardinali & I. Marchesini (2018) Topography-driven satellite imagery analysis for landslide mapping, Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 9:1, 544-567, DOI: 10.1080/19475705.2018.1458050
- Delucchi, L., Neteler, M. (2011): g.cloud module for GRASS GIS, FOSS4G 2011 Denver, Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/lucadelu/grass-cloud
- Neteler, M. (2008): Building a cluster for GRASS GIS and other software from the OSGeo stack, https://courses.neteler.org/building-a-cluster-for-grass-gis-and-other-software-from-the-osgeo-stack/
Upcoming in 2018:
- Special issue "High-Performance Computing in Geoscience and Remote Sensing", Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9)