On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Berk Geveci <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am very interested in knowing this too. How does Windows control > what goes to which GPU? I am guessing that each GPU is driving a > different monitor? When it is offscreen rendering, how do you control > which card does the rendering? For offscreen rendering, an application can redirect rendering to a specific GPU by setting the GPU affinity (e.g. the WGL_NV_gpu_affinity extension). I don't know if ParaView provides mechanisms to specify GPU affinity. Hopefully, it will not be much work to add it. HTH -- Shree VizStack : http://vizstack.sourceforge.net/ Personal Blog : http://www.shreekumar.in/ On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Dr. X <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Ken. > You are right, the pop up message box shows no -display option in windows. > So for my case, 4 cpu cores and 2 gpus, how shall I set up the pvserver to > use all the resources? > thanks a lot. > > Best, > x > > On 5/27/2010 5:52 PM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote: > > The -display argument is only available for X windows. It has no meaning > for the native displays on Windows or Mac. If you try to use it on Windows, > you should get an error message that the -display argument is unknown and it > should list all the arguments available. As I recall, on windows it > actually pops up a dialog box listing the arguments rather than printing > them to stdout or stderr. Perhaps pvserver is hanging because it is waiting > for you to hit the OK button on all these dialog boxes which, for some > reason, you are not seeing. > > -Ken > > > On 5/27/10 2:10 PM, "Dr. X" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > I am trying to setup a pvserver on a workstation with 4 cores and 2 > gpus. The workstation is running windows 7 64bit, MPICH2 1.2.1p1, and > ParaView 3.8.0-RC2. Here is my local pvserver command > > mpiexec -channel nemesis -n 2 .\pvserver.exe -display :0.0 > --use-offscreen-rendering : -n 2 .\pvserver.exe -display :0.1 > --use-offscreen-rendering > > Somehow the command hangs. Is -display option available in windows? If > so, what is the right way to use it? I was trying to put 2 core + 1 gpu > together. If there is another way to optimize the use of cpu and gpu, > please let me know. Thanks a lot. > > Best, > x > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > > > **** Kenneth Moreland > *** Sandia National Laboratories > *********** > *** *** *** email: [email protected] > ** *** ** phone: (505) 844-8919 > *** web: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kmorel > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
