On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:53 PM, David E DeMarle<[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. > > If you compile paraview from source and turn MPI on, then the server > process can be run as a parallel job (mpirun -np N pvserver). > Connecting to that parallel server and using it is no different than > the client/serial-server case. > > I vaguely recall that the Mac binaries are compiled this way, and can > be used directly. Mac are treated differently because the MPI library > on Macs is more standardized than elsewhere. > > David E DeMarle
Hm, I still don't understand. I installed MPI and compiled with MPI on with 4 computers, call them A,X,Y, and Z. A is where I will be sitting working, and X,Y, and Z will be running paraview servers "helping" A to do its work. So on X,Y, and Z, I run mpirun -np 1 pvserver (there is only 1 core on each machine - is this what "number of processes" is looking for?) Now on computer A, how do I tell it to use all 3 of these servers (X,Y, and Z)? The only parallelization I've done before is with a single machine with more than one core, so telling it to run a process on several threads makes sense in that case - but we didn't tell X,Y, and Z to work together, so it seems like we now just have 3 independent servers, that have now simply been started with 'mpirun' instead of with only 'pvserver'! Thanks, David _______________________________________________ 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
