HI Burlen, Thanks again. Is there and easy way to verify that Paraview is using the GPU ours are TESLA C2075?
Should I need to change the "MOD"(?) setting so it is rendering rather than compute? R. Christopher Bording Supercomputing Team-iVEC@UWA E: cbord...@ivec.org T: +61 8 6488 6905 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Technology Park Kensington, Western Australia. 6151 On 27/10/2014, at 11:10 PM, Burlen Loring wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > Are you by any chance logged in with ssh X11 forwarding (ssh -X ...)? It > seems the error you report comes up often in that context. X forwarding would > not be the right way to run PV on your cluster. > > Depending on how your cluster is setup you may need to start up the xserver > before launching PV, and make sure to close it after PV exits. IUn that > scenario your xorg.conf would specify the nvidia driver and a screen for each > gpu which you would refernece in the shell used to start PV through the > DISPLAY variable. If you already have x11 running and screens configured then > it's just a matter of setting the display variable correctly. When there are > multiple GPU's per node then you'd need to set the display using mpi rank > modulo the number of gpus per node. > > I'm not sure it matters that much but I don't think that you want > --use-offscreen-rendering option. > > Burlen > > On 10/26/2014 10:23 PM, R C Bording wrote: >> Hi, >> Managed to get a "working version of Paraview-4.2.0.1" on our GPU cluster >> but when I try to run the >> parallelSphere.py script on more than one node it just hangs. Work like it >> is supposed to up to 12 cores on a single node. I am still trying work out >> if I a running on the GPU "tesla- C2070). >> >> Here is the list of cake configurations >> >> IBS_TOOL_CONFIGURE='-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ >> -DParaView_FROM_GIT=OFF \ >> -DParaView_URL=$MYGROUP/vis/src/ParaView-v4.2.0-source.tar.gz \ >> -DENABLE_boost=ON \ >> -DENABLE_cgns=OFF \ >> -DENABLE_ffmpeg=ON \ >> -DENABLE_fontconfig=ON \ >> -DENABLE_freetype=ON \ >> -DENABLE_hdf5=ON \ >> -DENABLE_libxml2=ON \ >> -DENABLE_matplotlib=ON \ >> -DENABLE_mesa=OFF \ >> -DENABLE_mpi=ON \ >> -DENABLE_numpy=ON \ >> -DENABLE_osmesa=OFF \ >> -DENABLE_paraview=ON \ >> -DENABLE_png=ON \ >> -DENABLE_python=ON \ >> -DENABLE_qhull=ON \ >> -DENABLE_qt=ON \ >> -DENABLE_silo=ON \ >> -DENABLE_szip=ON \ >> -DENABLE_visitbridge=ON \ >> -DMPI_CXX_LIBRARIES:STRING="$MPI_HOME/lib/libmpi_cxx.so" \ >> -DMPI_C_LIBRARIES:STRING="$MPI_HOME/lib/libmpi.so" \ >> -DMPI_LIBRARY:FILEPATH="$MPI_HOME/lib/libmpi_cxx.so" \ >> -DMPI_CXX_INCLUDE_PATH:STRING="$MPI_HOME/include" \ >> -DMPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH:STRING="$MPI_HOME/include" \ >> -DUSE_SYSTEM_mpi=ON \ >> -DUSE_SYSTEM_python=OFF \ >> -DUSE_SYSTEM_qt=OFF \ >> -DUSE_SYSTEM_zlib=OFF ' >> >> The goal is to be able to support batch rendering on the whole cluster ~96 >> nodes. >> >> Also do I need set another environment variable in my Paraview module to >> make the Xlib >> warning go away? >> >> [cbording@f100 Paraview]$ mpirun -n 12 pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering >> parallelSphere.py >> Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:50.0". >> Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:50.0". >> Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:50.0". >> Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:50.0". >> Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:50.0". >> Xlib: extension "NV-GLX" missing on display "localhost:50.0". >> >> Is this related to my not being able to run across multiple nodes? >> >> R. Christopher Bording >> Supercomputing Team-iVEC@UWA >> E: cbord...@ivec.org >> T: +61 8 6488 6905 >> >> 26 Dick Perry Avenue, >> Technology Park >> Kensington, Western Australia. >> 6151 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >
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