Sort of. The point of using MPI is to establish a "virtual parallel machine". The physical machines that comprise that virtual parallel machine can all work together because they are part of the same mpi job. The parallel filters within VTK that paraview uses are only written to work with the other machines in the same mpi job.
I say sort of because it is possible to run paraview in a split server mode, consisting of exactly two virtual parallel machines. One machine first does most of the visualization pipeline filtering work, then the other does most of the rendering pipeline work. These are referred to as pvdataserver and pvrenderserver respectively. Inside each server communication happens over MPI and between the two servers communication happens over TCP instead of MPI, as it does between the servers and the client. You can refer the the parallel processing section of the ParaView user's guide for details. David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 28 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-371-3971 x109 On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 7:47 AM, David Doria<[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Utkarsh > Ayachit<[email protected]> wrote: >> This wiki page may be of help: >> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server >> >> Utkarsh >> > > Is it possible to have different "external command to start the > server" for each machine in machinelist.txt? > > For example, on one of the machines I want to run > mpirun -np 8 pvserver > > where on the rest simply > mpirun 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
