Hi Kevin, What reader are you using to read your data ? Moreover, do you have a descent graphic card with the correct driver installed ? On Linux, this is more than important to take the latest NVidia driver and don't use the system package version.
Seb On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Kevin Hackel <kevin.hac...@online.de>wrote: > Hi Sebastien, > > There is a normal ethernet cable with 1 GB/s between server and computer. > The same data was created with different number of processes, for example > 4 times 330 megabyte or 8 times 165 megabyte, so that the data as a whole > is 1320 megabyte big and it is an unstructered data. > Well I had not the time to test it again, but I will do. > > But what I haven’t understand is the fact that when I load this data and > want to change the filter from outline to wireframe or surface than my > Paraview crashed after one minute or so. When I load a single part of the > data (with 165MB or 330MB) I could change the filter but it needs very long > to do that. > When I first use isosurfaces on the data than I have no problem to view > the data or to move it around. Where could be the problem? > > Kevin > > *From:* Sebastien Jourdain <sebastien.jourd...@kitware.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 04, 2012 2:07 PM > *To:* Kevin Hackel <kevin.hac...@online.de> > *Cc:* paraview@paraview.org > *Subject:* Re: [Paraview] Trying to run the servers on parallel > > 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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