Hi All, I am looking to run QGIS and trying to determine the best resource to get it going. I am trying to decide between PSC (Bridges-2) or NCSA Delta if its possible to install or use QGIS. I’ll also be running WRF (weather forecasting) model add-on as well. Let me know any thoughts you all may have.
Thank you for your comments:)
agbeli,
If you already have accounts on PSC (Bridges-2) or NCSA Delta, you can login and check to see if QGIS is already installed. If it is not installed you can install it yourself from the binary. There is a binary for many flavors of GNU/Linux. You will do the installation in your home directory if that is allowed, but it is not the case then you should contact the user support of either Bridges-2 or NCSA Delta for help. For Linux OSs other than /GNU/Linux, you or the Technician helping will build from source
It looks like QGIS is primarily a Desktop Application so you will have to use a GUI interface to launch the application. Bridges-2 or NCSA Delta should have documentation on how to do this. This is doable with some effort and time.
Happy computing
Note that most of the processing you’d do with geospatial data in QGIS can be accomplished from the command line using the QGIS Processing Framework.
There’s also PyQGIS, for working with QGIS tools through Python.
Lastly, many of the tools in QGIS use GDAL under the hood, and you could possibly process your data from the command line just using GDAL.
None of that helps if you’re wanting a GUI desktop experience to work interactively with QGIS, but if you have some processes you’re wanting to script, you can likely learn how to call each step from the command line (run the tool in a desktop session of QGIS and watch the Log when you run a tool) and then chain them together in a script you can execute from the command line.