Wendel, JeffreyFinn, Michael P.Kosovich, JohnFalgout, JeffLiu, YanCoetzee, Serena MarthaCooper, A.K. (Antony Kyle)Camboim, SilvanaAnand, SuchithTaylor, TrevorBorba, R.L.R. (Rogerio)Strauch, Julia2015-09-162015-09-162015Wendel, J et al, 2015, 'A solution for processing large files in the LASer (LAS) format using the message passing interface (MPI) and parallel file systems', Proceedings of a pre-conference workshop of the 27th International Cartographic Conference: Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015) 20-21 August 2015, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Jaineiro, Brazil.978-1-77592-117-2http://hdl.handle.net/2263/49961Paper presented at the 27th International Cartographic Conference: Spatial data infrastructures, standards, open source and open data for geospatial (SDI-Open 2015) 20-21 August 2015, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.6 PagesPDFenThe authors retain copyright over their work, while allowing the workshop organizers to place their unpublished work under a Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely access, use, and share the work, with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and its initial presentation at this conference.Parallel throughput architectureLidarMPIGeospatial dataMessage passing interfacePoint cloudsRaster datasetsPresentation