Hi Berk, Thank you for the information. It looks fine for my current purpose.
But, I think I haven't yet understood how pvrenderserver works in parallel. Does it still use MPI?; for example, if I had multiple graphics cards, say 4 cards, should I do like this?: % mpirun -np 8 pvdataserver % mpirun -np 4 pvrenderserver Or does it work in other way? Shigenobu On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 23:31, Berk Geveci <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Shigenobu, > > I'd recommend using simple client-server and turning off remote > rendering from the Preferences -> Render View -> Server. This should > give you the same result without the complication of the render > server. Making use of multiple cores when there is only one graphics > card is a research topic for us. In the future, there will be better > way of doing this. > > -berk > > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Shigenobu Hirose > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've built Paraview servers on Mac OS X (10.5.6 intel x86_64) with >> PARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON. >> I'm going to run the servers on a MacPro with 8 CPUs and with a single >> graphics card. >> >> I understand that >> % mpirun -np 8 pvserver >> is meaningful for data processing since it will be done in parallel >> using 8 CPUs. But, I think it is redundant for rendering since there >> is only one graphics card. In fact, when I run the above command, >> there appear 8 windows, but rendering seems to be done on only one of >> them with other 7 windows being blank. >> >> So, I guess I should launch the pvdataserver with MPI but the >> pvrenderserver without MPI like this: >> % mpirun -np 8 pvdataserver >> % pvrenderserver >> >> Is my understanding correct? >> >> Thank you. >> Shigenobu >> _______________________________________________ >> ParaView mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list [email protected] http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
