Re: [Paraview] python

2008-12-05 Thread Berk Geveci
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:31 AM, David Fuentes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Berk Geveci wrote: You can't connect to the paraview gui. You can only connect to instances of pvserver. Currently, those accept one connection only. We will be working on collaboration support that

[Paraview] Questions about Multiblock

2008-12-05 Thread Fabian Wein
Hi, I export VTK multiblock files. I have the following questions: * How can I assign names to the datasets? I googled and found a hint to use name in the pvd file but this is ignored. * Is it possible to write the blocks to a single file? * Paraview crashes when I load the pvd file: VTKFile

[Paraview] pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage

2008-12-05 Thread Jens
Hi, if I run mpirun -np 4 ./pvserver on our cluster-node and connect from my client, this pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage - even if I do nothing at the client. Seems to me as if there is a loop waiting for the client to ask for action - but this loop is calling no wait/sleep function.

Re: [Paraview] pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage

2008-12-05 Thread John M. Patchett
Hi Jens, Your pvserver is probably waiting on an MPI_Recv and your MPI implementation is spinning. You will note that process 0 probably isn't doing this, as the other nodes are waiting on process 0 to send. I have searched this problem all the way to the MPI developers as it's easy to

Re: [Paraview] pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage

2008-12-05 Thread Jens
Hi John, thanks for your answer. That makes sense. Normal mpi-apps are probably not written to wait for more things to do - they are simply always busy. It is just a pity that the cluster has to run 100% producing a lot of heat for nothing. So the MPI-lib will probably not change this behavior

Re: [Paraview] pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage

2008-12-05 Thread Jens
Hi John, thought about this problem again... A solution could be a)to use MPI_IRecv/MPI_Wait instead of MPI_Recv. If that results in the same 100% cpu for the MPI_Wait-command, b) it could be a solution to add a wait()/sleep() just beweeen MPI_IRecv and MPI_Wait. How long this wait/sleep would

Re: [Paraview] pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage

2008-12-05 Thread John M. Patchett
Hi Jens, If I recall correctly, your observation lies in the type of hardware you are using. I think some hardware allows a developer to leverage an interrupt while some requires polling for a received message. Design requirements for MPI to be fast with low latency usually (I

Re: [Paraview] pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage

2008-12-05 Thread John M. Patchett
Hi Jens, I would think that each pvserver process would have to be able to detect that it was in a lengthy wait state because it sure would suck to have an MPI_Wait in the middle of each send/recv pair during compositing ... And it would probably be difficult to handle the tiled

Re: [Paraview] pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Edwards
Hi all, It just depends on how it is implemented with MPI. There will be lower latency if it spins in a loop waiting for a message. Here is a link to the FAQ which shows how you can stop this for OpenMPI: http://www.open-mpi.org/faq/?category=running#oversubscribing

Re: [Paraview] pvserver always shows 100% cpu usage

2008-12-05 Thread Jacques Papper
Just a quick note - I have noticed the same behavior with LAM-MPI, but not with MPICH. Jacques 2008/12/5 Paul Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, It just depends on how it is implemented with MPI. There will be lower latency if it spins in a loop waiting for a message. Here is a link to the

Re: [Paraview] Plot on a Contour surface

2008-12-05 Thread Berk Geveci
I am guessing this is a 2D contour, correct? If yes, this is a feature I am supposed to work on for the next release. Can you send me an example file? -berk On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Sergio Di Bari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody, I'm having some problem with Paraview. I have a

Re: [Paraview] import of camera path

2008-12-05 Thread Berk Geveci
Chris, If you put a feature request at http://paraview.org/Bug, maybe I will get to provide an example python script to accomplish this. Send me an e-mail after submitting the bug. Thanks. -berk On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Christoph Held [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to

Re: [Paraview] picture-transfer in paraview -- pvserver

2008-12-05 Thread Berk Geveci
If the geometry size is below the remote render threshold, geometry is transferred and rendered on the client. If the geometry size is above the threshold, rendering happens on the server and the resulting image is transferred. No OpenGL commands travel over the network. On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at