<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Hi
All,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Attached is a very
short ppt on grads performance vs python using grib files. In most cases,
grads blows python away. Times are relative to our machine and consider
everything from starting grads/opening the file, to closing the file. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- In particular we
have found that shaded1 is much faster. Up to 40% faster on our machines.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Wesley Ebisuzaki
recommended converting the grib files to a lat/lon grid to eliminate the PDEF
entry to significantly speed up the opening time of high resolution grib
files. <a href="http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/2016-January/039339.html" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/2016-January/039339.html</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">- Again noted by
Wesley, grib packing can have an impact on performance <a href="http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/2010-May/027683.html" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/2010-May/027683.html</a> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">One thing we show in
the ppt is that as the view gets wider (i.e. the number of points that are plotted
increase), the slower grads is relative to python. At some point, python
will become faster. Anyways, to battle with this, regridding (using the
re() function) the data within grads significantly speeds up the plotting time
(see last slide) when you have a lot of points.
As far as I know, you can’t use re() in grads 2.1a3. You do have lterp() but a grid is
needed. Is there anything that will
allow me to lterp to my image dimensions?
Say my image dimensions are x800 y600 then lterp would interpolate my
high resolution grib file to x800 y600 (or some multiple of) when a view
exceeds 800 points across. This will significantly
speed up the plotting time when viewing a wide view of a high resolution grib
file while not degrading the image quality by much (again, see last slide). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Also, if anyone has
other performance tips on plotting high resolution grib files we would love to
hear them.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Travis</span></p></div>