Geography
Date of this Version
2009
Abstract
pRPL is an open-source general-purpose programming library developed by the author to parallelize almost any raster-processing algorithm with any arbitrary neighborhood configuration, and support any data type. This paper introduces the advanced features of pRPL, compares it with other similar programming libraries, and demonstrates the performance of a parallel geographic Cellular Automata (CA) model developed using pRPL with real-world datasets. In conclusion, pRPL effectively reduces the development complexity of parallel programming, and efficiently reduces the computing time.
Comments
Published in The SIGSPATIAL Special, Volume 1, Number 1, March 2009, pp. 57-62. Copyright 2009 Qingfeng Guan.