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High-performance geocomputing 2016 workshop
| Date: | 26.10.2016 9:00 - 26.10.2016 16.30 |
| Location details: | The event is organised at the CSC Training Facilities located in the premises of CSC at Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland. The best way to reach us is by public transportation; more detailed travel tips are available. |
| Language: | english-language |
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Speakers can be found from program. |
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The seats are filled in the registration order. You may cancel your attendance without a charge 5 business days prior the course. For cancellations after that and no-shows without a cancellation the full fee will be invoiced.
Additional Information
Course content: giscoord@csc.fi
Practical matters: event-support@csc.fi
Practical matters: event-support@csc.fi
The aim of the workshop is to share knowledge about high-performance geocomputing. The morning session will concentrate on R spatial and its use in CSC's environment. In the afternoon different current geocomputing projects in Finland are presented. The day will end with an open discussion related to the topic.
R and Taito session
- Seija Sirkiä, CSC, "Running parallel R jobs on Taito"
- Kylli Ek, CSC, "R spatial packages"
Afternoon session with project presentations
- Kylli Ek, CSC, "CSC HPC resources"
- Eevaliisa Laine, GTK, "High-performance geoscientific computing in multi-scale mineral potential studies"
- Peter Kullberg, University of Helsinki, "Measuring protection equality" (R, Taito)
- Markku Viitasalo, SYKE, "Data-intensive surveys provide background for maritime spatial planning - VELMU and SmartSea projects" (R, Taito)
- FGI, "Interactive uncertainty analysis of catchment areas using cPouta could service for high-performance computations"
- Henrikki Tenkanen, University of Helsinki, "Using CSC resources in Open GeoScience and teaching" (ArcPy, cPouta, Pouta BluePrints, Python)
- Jesús Carabaño, Åbo Akademi, "From python scripting to parallel raster spatial analysis"
Program
Tuesday, October 25th (Preliminari program)
| 9:00-10:30 | Using R on CSC's supercluster Taito (Seija Sirkiä, CSC) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee break |
| 10:45-11:45 | R spatial packages |
| 11.45-12:30 | Lunch (at own cost) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Project presentations |
| 14:00-14:15 | Coffee break |
| 14:15-15:00 | Project presentations |
| 15:00-16:00 | Discussion |