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Re: Large data sets



Neil Talsania wrote:
>   I am new to IDL, and everything that I have done so far works great on
> small data sets. But, I dont know how to use it for a large (>2 gig)
> dataset, as I obviously just cant load that into an array. The data is on
> disk and can either be tiled so that it is stored in 1024x1024 segments, or
> it is stripped which is one complete row at a time. Even a complete row is
> large (>80000 samples).
> 
> Any thoughts as to how I would be able to use this data?
> 
> Another question: is there thread support in IDL? I have a machine with 18
> processors, so it sure would be nice to process this large dataset in 18
> parallel threads. Any suggestions?

The following may be of interest:

http://sag-www.ssl.berkeley.edu/~korpela/mmap/

Cheers,
Liam.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley/