[GRASS-user] Global overview of GRASS HPC resources/installations ?

Massi Alvioli nocharge at gmail.com
Wed May 23 06:37:59 PDT 2018


Hi Laura,

the effort on cloud providers is probably useless. Was it different in
your case?


M

2018-05-22 10:12 GMT+02:00 Laura Poggio <laura.poggio at gmail.com>:
> I am really interested in this. I am experimenting with different settings
> to use GRASS on HPC, more specifically on multi-core local machines and on
> single-core multiple instances on a cloud provider. It would be great to
> share experiences with other people fighting the same problems.
>
> Thanks
>
> Laura
>
> On 20 May 2018 at 12:32, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>
> wrote:
>>
>> Le Sun, 20 May 2018 09:30:53 +0200,
>> Nikos Alexandris <nik at nikosalexandris.net> a écrit :
>>
>> > * Massi Alvioli <nocharge at gmail.com> [2018-05-17 15:01:39 +0200]:
>> >
>> > >2018-05-17 10:09 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert
>> > ><mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
>> > >
>> > >Hi,
>> > >
>> > >> [I imagine your mail was supposed to go onto the mailing list and
>> > >> not just to me...]
>> > >
>> > >sure my answer was for everyone to read, I believe I tried to send it
>> > >again afterwards..
>> > >something must have gone wrong.
>> > >
>> > >> I just presented GRASS and a short overview over GRASS on HPC
>> > >> yesterday at the FOSS4F-FR and there was a lot of interest for
>> > >> this. Several people asked me about specific documentation on the
>> > >> subject.
>> > >
>> > >What we did about GRASS + HPC was for specific production purposes
>> > >and no documentation
>> > >whatsoever wascreated, basically due to lack of time.. so I find it
>> > >hard to say whether this is going
>> > >to change in the near future:). Surely the topic is of wide interest
>> > >and worth being discussed in
>> > >several contexts.
>> > >
>> > >> Currently, I'm aware of the following wiki pages which each
>> > >> potentially touches on some aspects of HPC:
>> > >
>> > >I must admit that existing documentation/papers did not help much.
>> > >Well, did not help at all, actually.
>> > >One major problem in my opinion/experience is that
>> > >multi-core/multi-node machines can be really
>> > >different from each other, and parallelization strategies very
>> > >purpose-specific, so that creating
>> > >general-purpose documents/papers, or even software, *may* be a
>> > >hopeless effort. Smart ideas
>> > >are most welcome, of course:)
>> >
>> > Dear Massimo and all,
>> >
>> > Being a beginner in massively processing Landsat 8 images using JRC's
>> > JEODPP system (which is designed for High-Throughput,
>> > https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.11.007), I found useful notes in
>> > the Wiki (notably Veronica's excellent tutorials) and elsewhere, got
>> > specific answers through the mailing lists and learned a lot in
>> > on-site discussions during the last OSGeo sprint, for example.
>> >
>> > Nonetheless, I think to have learned quite some things the hard way.
>> > In this regard, some answers to even "non-sense" questions are worth
>> > documenting.
>> >
>> > My aim is to transfer notes of practical value. Having HPC and HTC
>> > related notes in a wiki, will help to get started, promote best
>> > practices, learn through common mistakes and give an overview for the
>> > points Peter put in this thread's first message.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> >
>> > I hope it's fine to name the page "High Performance Computing". Please
>> > advise or create a page with another name if you think otherwise.
>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Moritz
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