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CloudCompare

CloudCompare is a free, open-source 3D point cloud processing software. It was originally designed to detect changes in 3D high-density point clouds captured with laser scanners. However, it has evolved into a more general 3D data processing software. The software allows users to interactively segment 3D entities and offers unlimited scalar fields.

CloudCompare offers:

  • Projections
  • Registration
  • Distance computation
  • Segmentation
  • Geometric feature estimation

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Usage on Elja

To use CloudCompare on Elja, you'll need to follow these instructions:

Step 1 | Connect to Elja with X-forwarding

CloudCompare uses a graphical user interface. To be able to use CloudCompare, you'll need to connect to Elja with X-forwarding. Instructions on how to do this can be found here.

Step 2 | Setting up the environment

[user@elja-irhpc ~]$ module use /hpcapps/lib-edda/modules/all/Core   # Use module lib-edda/Core 
[user@elja-irhpc ~]$ module use /hpcapps/lib-geo/modules/all # Use module lib-geo
[user@elja-irhpc ~]$ module load CloudCompare # Loading CloudCompare

Step 3 | Connect to a compute node and run software

[user@elja-irhpc ~]$ srun --partition gpu-2xA100 -n 1 --pty --x11 bash
[user@compute-node ~]$ CloudCompare
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For more information about srun and sbatch, please have a look at Submitting Slurm Jobs General usage on submitting a job