Package: wnpp
Version: N/A
Severity: wishlist
I am packaging my PETScGraphics Distributed Visualization Library, URL
http://lyre.mit.edu/~powell/petscgraphics.html .
This is a little hack to take PETSc 3-D distributed arrays and calculate
isoquant surface shapes, then display those surfaces using Geomview. It
makes a pretty neat distributed calculation and visualization Beowulf
demo (a -demo binary package is included to make this easy, just "mpirun
-np X chts" to run chts on X processors with distributed calculation of
the isoquant surfaces).
This is an early version; later versions will push more work to the
compute nodes by having them actually render semi-transparent images
using their local data. Those images will be quickly layered and
displayed by the head node. This will make the rendering MUCH faster
and avoid Geomview's transparency bug, but each node's data will have to
be in a convex shape, i.e. can't do this with arbitrary finite element
meshes (though DAs will still work fine). But this will take many
months to find the time to do right...
Share and enjoy.
Zeen,
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-Adam P.
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