Hi Kevin, How good is your network between the remote PC that execute pvserver and your client computer that run paraview ? How big is your data ? What type of data is that ? Structured or unstructured ? Did you try to run pvserver on that very same machine without using MPI ? Does that change anything ? Did you try to go in ParaView/Edit/Settings and compare "local rendering" vs "remote rendering" performance ?
Seb On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Kevin Hackel <kevin.hac...@online.de> wrote: > Hello community, > > This is my first e-mail to the mailing list, so I hope I do it right :-) > And sorry for my english, I try my best to make my mail understandable. If > you can I would be pleased if you answer in german. Also I want you to know > that I haven’t a great knowledge about informatics. > > Well I try to use Paraview on parallel, but I think it doesn’t work right > how I do it. > I use a remote PC on which I will run the Paraview client and a extern > server with up to 48 CPUs and good GPUs. > So I start the server using “mpirun –np ‘number’ ../pvserver” or “mpirun > –np ‘number’ ../pvserver –display localhost:0” (my Paraview is compiled > with openmpi on a linux system). Then I connect over the remote PC in > Paraview to this server (client/server mode). > It works, but not well. I’ve got test data (about 1GB) and it takes about > two minutes to change for example the filter from outline to wireframe. > Also when I want to move the image with drag and drop it takes about five > seconds to rerender it. I think for only 1GB it takes too long for doing > this. > Also I’m not sure if my server uses its GPUs or only its CPUs, I don’t > know how to find it out. > Would it be better to use my remote PC only as a display? > Could you tell me how Paraview scales with the number of data sets and > number of processes. Should I use ‘x’ processes to load ‘x’ data sets? Or > is it better to use more processes than data sets (for example: Would it be > better to use 8 processes for loading 6 data sets than using 6 processes?) > Is there another way how I could start my server that it will work better? > Or what can I change that it will work better? > > I hope you can help me a little bit and give me tips how I should use > Paraview on parallel. Thanks. > > > Greetings, > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > >
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