Cluster/Supercomputer/HPC variants of Mapserver

[David Bitner]

Without getting into any clustering, there is probably a lot of
optimization that you could do to your datasets.  There are a number
of posts in the archives for this list and documentation on
mapserver.gis.umn.edu on doing things like creating overviews at
different resolutions and tiling for rasters that could likely help
speed up the process.


On 1/19/06, Biz King <biz.king at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> Is anyone aware of anywhere (or better still, has experience of)
> running Mapserver via an MPI/Grid interface or as a cluster?
>
> We're trying to develop a high-performance mapserver that can cope
> with the load we're going to be throwing at it!  Currently it takes
> 298 seconds (on a Mac OSX Server, 3.5 Gb Ram, dual 2Ghz processors)
> to do what we need done on under 60 seconds!  There's not much we can
> do to cut down the load as we're creating a whole series of nodes on
> a layer via a database and we're then creating the imagery based on
> these items and outputting them to graphics formats in varying sizes.
>
> The results get fed to users on demand without the delays associated
> with 'on the fly' image creation.
>
> Any help will be welcomed!
>
> cheers
>
> Biz
>