[OpenDroneMap-dev] OpenMPI

[Alex Mandel]

On 04/27/2015 09:18 AM, Bales, Donald J. wrote:
> All,
> 
> Forgive me if you feel this inquiry is misplaced, but I was wondering if OpenDroneMap has an OpenMPI implementation, or if you know of any OpenMPI implementation for image processing?  If not, is there any interest in the OpenDroneMap community to create an OpenMPI implementation so one can leverage high performance computing platforms?
> Sincerely,
> 
> Donald J. Bales
> (630) 776-0071
> 

We have been talking about converting the current Perl master script to
something in Python (possibly flask based). At that point there would be
good places to hook in an MPI library for python.

The tricky part is going to be an efficient means of distributing the
data. If you have a compute cluster this shouldn't be an issue (assuming
you have some sort of shared storage). If you use Amazon it might mean
you have all your nodes reads from the same S3, etc.

Thanks,
Alex