[GRASS-dev] Adding an expert mode to the parser

Markus Metz markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 14:30:48 PDT 2016


On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Markus Metz
> <markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> ...
>> Your motivation is to provide a specialized CLI interface for HPC
>> processing?
>
> No, not the case.
>
>> We used GRASS with HPC processing for years and the
>> problems we faced were causes by the HPC hardware and software
>> infrastructure, not by GRASS. What exactly is the problem with using
>> GRASS and HPC processing?
>
> There is no problem. There is just the issue that with an increasing
> amount of additions (e.g. maybe the need to provide region/resolution
> to individual modules for independent parallel processing without the
> overhead of always opening a new mapset)

Getting closer it seems. Can you quantify "the overhead of always
opening a new mapset"?

Markus M


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