Parallelization of interpolation, solar radiation and water flow simulation modules in GRASS GIS using OpenMP

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.07.007" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.07.007</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2017.07.007" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cageo.2017.07.007</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Parallelization of interpolation, solar radiation and water flow simulation modules in GRASS GIS using OpenMP

Original language description

In this paper, we describe the parallelization of three complex and computationally intensive modules of GRASS GIS using the OpenMP application programming interface for multi-core computers. These include the v.surf.rst module for spatial interpolation, the r.sun module for solar radiation modeling and the r.sim.water module for water flow simulation. We briefly describe the functionality of the modules and parallelization approaches used in the modules. Our approach includes the analysis of the module's functionality, identification of source code segments suitable for parallelization and proper application of OpenMP parallelization code to create efficient threads processing the subtasks. We document the efficiency of the solutions using the airborne laser scanning data representing land surface in the test area and derived high-resolution digital terrain model grids. We discuss the performance speed-up and parallelization efficiency depending on the number of processor threads. The study showed a substantial increase in computation speeds on a standard multi-core computer while maintaining the accuracy of results in comparison to the output from original modules. The presented parallelization approach showed the simplicity and efficiency of the parallelization of open-source GRASS GIS modules using OpenMP, leading to an increased performance of this geospatial software on standard multi-core computers.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Computers & Geosciences

ISSN

0098-3004

e-ISSN

1873-7803

Volume of the periodical

107

Issue of the periodical within the volume

OCT

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

20-27

UT code for WoS article

000411418600003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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