Runing GEO and L1B processed in parallel

[jvaldezch]

Hi forum,

I was wodering if it is possible to run processes in parallel. I'm currently processing L2 products to obtain AFAI, but when running processes like modis_GEO.py and modis_L1B.py I realize that both scripts uses current work directory and creates two files with a non unique name "ShmMem" and "GetAttr.temp" and this provoques other processes runing over same directory to crash.

Do you have any suggestion?

Thanks

[OB SeaDAS - dshea]

I guess I would take the easy way out.  Make a directory for each parallel process and move a set of files to each directory.  Process each directory with one process.  When done move all the files back to the original directory.  Moving a file just changes a pointer to the actual data in the filesystem, so it is fast regardless of the size of the file.  Assuming you are moving the file within a physical storage device.

We might revisit those scripts and make process unique temp filenames, but don't hold your breath.

don

[jvaldezch]

Thanks Don! I will modify my scripts to do as suggested.

[gnwiii]

The level-2 processing is the one that can benefit the most from parallel processing.  The GEO and L1B processing are dominated by I/O.  In the past (on a system "borrowed" from numerical modellers that had one data disk but 24 cores) it made sense run the lower level processing steps serially and use GNU parallel for the level-2 processing.  There were diminishing returns and heat problems using all 24 cores, so in the end l2gen was given fewer cores.