Re: [gdal-dev] does gdal support multiple simultaneous writers to raster

2013-01-12 Thread Kennedy, Paul
Hi Simultaneous writers would be a better long term solution as we often improve the raster following initial creation. This improvement may well be a filter run on a sub region ( eg a despeckle) or updating a piece of the dtm with better information or even some manual edits as a last resort.

Re: [gdal-dev] does gdal support multiple simultaneous writers to raster

2013-01-12 Thread Jan Hartmann
This is about the same acceleartion (2-3 times) as I got on jobs running for a few days. My impression is that distributed tile processing would give much more dramatic results. On 01/12/2013 03:57 PM, Even Rouault wrote: Le samedi 12 janvier 2013 15:08:55, Jan Hartmann a écrit : You probabl

Re: [gdal-dev] does gdal support multiple simultaneous writers to raster

2013-01-12 Thread Jan Hartmann
I would be interested in an implementation. I'm preparing a proposal to georeference the complete cadastral map of the Netherlands in 1832 at a 10 cm/pixel scale with Cloud facilities. Gdalwarp is the central piece of software, and distributed processing capabilities would be very important. Co

Re: [gdal-dev] does gdal support multiple simultaneous writers to raster

2013-01-12 Thread Even Rouault
> ex. convert > multiple datasets to different output datasets in a parallel way. As Frank underlined, there's currently an issue with the global block cache regarding write support. Imagine that you have 2 threads A and B. Thread A deal with dataset A, and thread B deal with dataset . Thread A

Re: [gdal-dev] does gdal support multiple simultaneous writers to raster

2013-01-12 Thread Even Rouault
Le samedi 12 janvier 2013 02:38:55, Kennedy, Paul a écrit : > Hi, > Yes, we are pretty sure we will see a significant benefit. The processing > algorithms are CPU bound not io bound. Our digital terrain model > interpolations often run for many hours ( we do them overnight) but the > underlying fi

Re: [gdal-dev] does gdal support multiple simultaneous writers to raster

2013-01-12 Thread Even Rouault
Le samedi 12 janvier 2013 15:08:55, Jan Hartmann a écrit : > You probably know this, but there is an option to let gdalwarp use more > cores: -wo NUM_THREADS=ALL_CPUS. It gives some improvement, but not > really staggering. Do you use Proj 4.8.0 ? If not, that might explain why you don't see a si

Re: [gdal-dev] does gdal support multiple simultaneous writers to raster

2013-01-12 Thread Paul Meems
To add my 2cnts. With MapWindow GIS we use TauDEM binaries to perform watershed delineations. http://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem/taudem5.0/index.html These TauDEM binaries are optimized to use MPI, but also work if you don't have MPI installed. I don't know in detail how it works but in general you

Re: [gdal-dev] does gdal support multiple simultaneous writers to raster

2013-01-12 Thread Jan Hartmann
You probably know this, but there is an option to let gdalwarp use more cores: -wo NUM_THREADS=ALL_CPUS. It gives some improvement, but not really staggering. Splitting up operations over individual tiles would really fasten up things. Even if I use only one VM, I can define 32 cores, and it wo

Re: [gdal-dev] which formats support subdatasets?

2013-01-12 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Hi Ivan it seems to me like the GeoRasters is somewhat special, but I think it warrants flagging it as supporting subdatasets regardless. A generic example is the netcdf driver, which supports subdatasets when a given netcdf file contains several variables, which can have different CRSs. Each var