Hello,
I’m running paraview 3.8.1 under linux using 8 cpus loading a reconstructed openfoam case with about 13GB per timestep (we have just two time steps, start 0 and result 1). The machine on which pvserver runs has 16 cpus and 70GB RAM, but pvserver uses just a small fraction of the ram.
Loading the case takes about 5 minutes (which would be fine, if subsequent operations were running more smoothly). Adding a slice takes another couple of minutes. Rotating (using the mouse) takes about 10sec for one frame to be rendered (the slice is constant colored). Computing 100 streamlines from a line source takes about 10 minutes, moving the view is fluent. As soon as the slice is displayed moving the view becomes extremely slow again.
I have also tried to convert the mesh to VTK which does not really change something. (Resulting VTK is of 37GB size).
At this state interactive work is not possible. Since the dataset is not extraordinary large (I think), I suspect a problem with our MPI configuration.
Offscreen rendering works (I think), we have 8 windows "Visualization Toolkit – OpenGL" that opens on the client (though the windows remain black).
MPI implementation is SGI MPI. I have also tried to compile openmpi 1.4.3 and pvserver from source, yet it’s still very slow. The client used is the x64 build from the paraview homepage.
MPI setup is for local use only. I am grateful for any help… Florian _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
