Each time i should copy the same data in all the workstations in order to use all them. In your opinion is it the good way?
2010/3/4 David E DeMarle <[email protected]> > An ad-hoc cluster like you've got is fine, as long as you have MPI set > up on the machines and are running a copy of paraview's pvserver on it > that has been compiled to use MPI. (Our binaries do not.) > > The data type (Unstructured Grid) doesn't matter, I think all VTK data > structure types can be split up (aka streamed). It is the file format > (*.vtk, *.vt?, *.xdmf, *.exo, *.case etc) that determines what reader > is invoked and thus whether the data will be read in in parallel or > not. > > David E DeMarle > Kitware, Inc. > R&D Engineer > 28 Corporate Drive > Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 > Phone: 518-371-3971 x109 > > > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Salman SHAHIDI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thank you David, > > > > My dataset is of type: "Unstructured Grid" > > Otherwise, i have 2 other questions: > > 1) what are the datasets that the readers are able to break up them? > > 2) I have not a cluster, thus i copied the same dataset in all WS. Is it > the > > correct manner to have parallel computations? > > > > Faithfully yours, > > > > Salman > > > > 2010/3/4 David E DeMarle <[email protected]> > >> > >> Which data file format? > >> > >> Not all readers are able to break up the data well, in which case > >> paraview handles it in one of several ways, none of which is ideal. > >> > >> David E DeMarle > >> Kitware, Inc. > >> R&D Engineer > >> 28 Corporate Drive > >> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662 > >> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109 > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Salman SHAHIDI <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Hi All, > >> > > >> > I have 8 debian workstation (WS) A,B,C,D,E,F,G, and H with paraview > >> > 3.6.1. I > >> > have configured all them by ssh without need to passeword. Each WS has > 2 > >> > cores, thus 16 processors are accessible. In WS A i have a machine > file > >> > consisting of all the machine names. I have copied the same dataset in > >> > all > >> > the machines too (I am not sure if this is correct or not). The > problem > >> > is > >> > the memory consumption of ParaView. By 8 WS there is not 8 times > memory > >> > disponibility. I hoped, when I run on 8 machines, that the memory > >> > consumption is 1/8 of the size on each machine, than when I use only > one > >> > machine. So what is the reason for this? Do I need special > configuration > >> > to > >> > minimize memory consumption? > >> > > >> > Thank you all, > >> > > >> > Salman > >> > > >> > ---------------------------------------- > >> > > >> > Note: > >> > > >> > Command line in the first workstation A: > >> > > >> > mpirun --mca btl_tcp_if_include eth0 -machinefile mymachinefile.txt > -np > >> > 16 > >> > /usr/local/bin/pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering > >> > Listen on port: 11111 > >> > Waiting for client... > >> > Client connected. > >> > > >> > Then in paraview executed also in WS A i add a localhost that refers > to > >> > all > >> > the 8 servers. > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > 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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