Exercise: GDAL

Timing

30 min

Goals

Learn how to use commandline tools:

• Interactively

• With several files in serial mode

• With several files in parallel

Prerequisites

• CSC user account and project with access to Puhti.

• Basic Linux skills

GDAL exercise materials in Geocomputing Github

Key points

• Use login node for fast small commands - file info etc

• Use compute nodes for actual computing

• GNU parallel helps to analyze several files at the same time