I am not sure – I am on a cluster with a scheduler, so cores are selected 
before the visualisation work starts. Generally the size of the data is known 
in advance so the processors needed to process that data have already been 
worked out. We are normally dealing with raw image data, if I have 148M dataset 
it works best with one core, and I max out a 12 core node with a 10G dataset 
(with two NVIDIA M2070Qs).  You can have different configurations on  the 
server side and select them as needed.

 

From: Arya Mazaheri [mailto:arya...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2012 7:40 PM
To: Paul McIntosh
Cc: paraview@paraview.org
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Very slow performance in Parallel mode

 

So, is there any way to dynamically assign number of CPU cores to the 
visualization process? 

 

On Tuesday ۲۱ June ۱۳۹۱ at ۱۴:۰۶, Paul McIntosh wrote:

Arya – from my experience small data will behave worse because there is some 
overhead in splitting it up. If it all fits in one process then that is the 
best place for it. 

 

Paul

 

From: paraview-boun...@paraview.org [mailto:paraview-boun...@paraview.org] On 
Behalf Of Arya Mazaheri
Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2012 7:06 PM
To: paraview@paraview.org
Subject: [Paraview] Very slow performance in Parallel mode

 

Hi there, 

I have made some experiments to see how running paraview in parallel mode can 
help me visualize my data more faster. 

First I ran paraview on my Macbook pro with a sphere source which has about 
90MB data. It's running smoothly without considerable annoyance. Then I tried 
to run the same dataset on ONE cluster node with 48 CPU cores. I started the 
paraview with the following command:

# mpirun -np 48  /share/apps/Paraview3/bin/pvserver -display :0

 

Then I connected to the server with my Macbook to render the same dataset. But 
I noticed a great deal on performance degradation. It was so hard to rotate and 
manipulate the object in 3d view. I am surprised by this issue! Do you know the 
reason?

 

Thanks,

 

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