[GRASS-dev] Re: Parallelization of GRASS modules for GSOC 2009

[Jyothish Soman]

I went through the functions list and my first point of understanding was
that the following functions will be nice to be worked into:

in raster functions:
r.terraflow, r.walk,r.watershed,r.water.outlet.

in image functions:
The most obvious one I saw was i.fft and i.ifft. An extension of which would
be i.zc.
I went through Yann's recommendation on i.atcorr, and went through the
research paper corresponding to it, Since the concept is new to me, it is
possible that I might end up picking the brains of the mentor.

Also beyond parallel, I will be fine with network tool kit also. Is it an
active project?.

Whatever happens to my GSOC application, I will be more than happy to work
with the developer team at GRASS.



On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Jyothish Soman
> <jyothish.soman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am a Masters student from International Institute of Information
> > Technology-Hyderabad India, looking to participate in google summer of
> code
> > under the OSGeo umbrella. More specifically, I want to work in the
> > parallelizing GRASS modules using openMP (MPI is also fine).
>
> That is a great idea - I am sure that many users would benefit from that.
>
> > Slightly confused where to start poking in the code.
> > Any suggestions on possible modules that have a good scope of coarse
> grained
> > parallelization in it is welcome.
>
> I guess that some kind of profiling is needed to see where time is
> wasted. The "problem" is that much of GRASS' intelligence stays
> in the modules. So heavy interpolation modules are certainly
> candidates.
> Also the vector library (topology building?) might be a candidate.
>
> We could make a quick survey in grass-user to ask people where
> they find GRASS slow.
>
> > Please note: I am assuming that all the developers I have talked to
> earlier
> > are already in this mail. If I missed anybody, please do inform me.
>
> (all are in the list)
>
> > Have been slightly busy yesterday, so didnt put up a full effort in going
> > through the code, forgive me for that.
>
> No problem at all! Here is also the (navigable) manual:
> http://download.osgeo.org/grass/grass6_progman/
>
> Please ask if you need specific answers.
>
> Markus
>



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JYOTHISH SOMAN
MS-2008-CS
Center for Security, Theory And Algorithm Research
International Institute of Information Technology
Hyderabad
India
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