An alternative to making a complex mpirun arguments is to supply a machines.pvx file. That will let you assign displays to each process on the server. See the ParaView guide p134. for details.
David E DeMarle Kitware, Inc. R&D Engineer 28 Corporate Drive Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 Phone: 518-371-3971 x109 On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM, John Biddiscombe <[email protected]> wrote: > Christine > > As you will notice from the start of the thread you link to, we use > multiple GPUs on a single node (2 for us, but 4 for you). > > The secret is to ensure in your case that mpi jobs > 0,1 have Display:0 > 2,3 have Display:1 > 4,5 have Display:2 > 6,7 have Display:3 > > and then all will be well. you'll need a rather complicated mpirun -e blah > blah command line. > > JB > > > Hi, > > I currently have one linux node with four GPUs and a single 8 core CPU I'd > like to setup as a Paraview server. I am unsure how to go about setting > things up so that MPI assigns each pair of cores a different GPU, or if > problems would arise with the 2 core/1 GPU ratio. Could someone who has > experience with this issue give me some pointers regarding the setup? > > This thread, for example, seems to imply that I would run multiple > instances of pvserver, somehow pointing each to a different GPU? > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00501.html > > Thanks, > Christine > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > -- > John Biddiscombe, email:biddisco @ > cscs.chhttp://www.cscs.ch/ > CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre | Tel: +41 (91) 610.82.07 > Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland | Fax: +41 (91) 610.82.82 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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