GRASS on Origin 2000

[Chuck Ehlschlaeger]

Dear Alejandro,

> Has someone succesfully ported GRASS to a Silicon Graphics
> ORIGIN 2000 and if so, what are the switches for the compiler
> to include in the head file.
> 
> Our ORIGIN 2000 has 10 RS10,000 processors, 1.25GBytes of RAM and
> runs IRIX 6.4 OS
> 
> I suppose the first step is to port it for one processor and then try
> with multi-threads. I want to port the modules that take a lot of time to run
> on workstations like r.watershed, r.surf.contour, s.surf.idw,
> s.surf.tps.

Being the original designer/author of r.watershed and r.surf.contour
algorithms (with experience helping someone multi-thread my code), I can
safely say that r.surf.contour can be made faster using multiple
processors. Unfortunately, r.watershed's A* algorithm doesn't
multi-thread well: The time consuming parts must be done one cell at a
time, sequentially.

Based on what I know about s.surf.tps and s.surf.idw, they should be
multi-thread-able.

Good luck, chuck

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