[GRASS-dev] parallelizing GRASS modules

[Hamish]

Maris wrote:
> A few day's a go I was looking for a new GIS related
> publications and stumbled on this one about parallel
> v.surf.idw implementation using MPI:
>
> "Explorations of the implementation of a parallel IDW
> interpolation algorithm in a Linux cluster-based parallel
> GIS" by Fang Huang, Dingsheng Liu, Xicheng Tan, Jian Wang,
> Yunping Chen, Binbin He in
> Computers & Geosciences 37 (2011) 426–434
> (doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2010.05.024)
> They are claiming up to 6x speed up of IDW.
> 
> Warning: Article is behind pay-wall :(


that reminds me about a Parallelized s.surf.idw (MPI) for GRASS 5
by Alexei Popov, Russia.
  http://www.tigers.ru/grass_docs/progs/DESCRIPTION.html

babelfish translation:
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigers.ru%2Fgrass_docs%2Fprogs%2FDESCRIPTION.html&lp=ru_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

(somehow that fell off the website without making it into the
wiki [fixed])


Hamish