García García, AndrésPerpiñá Castillo, CarolinaAlfonso Laguna, Carlos DeHernández García, Vicente2014-01-162013-121865-0473https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/34931This paper presents the integration of desktop grid infrastructure with GIS technologies, by proposing a parallel resolution method in a generic distributed environment. A case study focused on a discrete facility location problem, in the biomass area, exemplifies the high amount of computing resources (CPU, memory, HDD) required to solve the spatial problem. A comprehensive analysis is undertaken in order to analyse the behaviour of the grid-enabled GIS system. This analysis, consisting of a set of the experiments on the case study, concludes that the desktop grid infrastructure is able to use a commercial GIS system to solve the spatial problem achieving high speedup and computational resource utilization. Particularly, the results of the experiments showed an increase in speedup of fourteen times using sixteen computers and a computational efficiency greater than 87 % compared with the sequential procedure.9Reserva de todos los derechosBiomassDesktop gridGeographical information systemCIENCIAS DE LA COMPUTACION E INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIALINGENIERIA CARTOGRAFICA, GEODESIA Y FOTOGRAMETRIAArtículo10.1007/s12145-013-0119-1Abierto