Hi Berk:
Thank you for your reply. I am doing the visualization on a distributed 
cluster. And the StreamTracer filter is used with a point source of radius 0.1 
and 100 seeds. 
It is surprising that the streamtracer in parallel takes orders of magnitude 
more time than when applied in serial. I tried to first apply D3 filter and 
then the streamtracer. That helps a little bit but still the time is 
prohibitively long (about an hour compared to ~5min when done in serial). I do 
not know if I am missing something or this is usual.
Here is the visualization that I want to create in parallel (I had to do it in 
serial because of this 
problem):https://www.dropbox.com/s/r3kkon3khjdpqs6/foam_3.png
The original dataset is about 4GB.  Here is a smaller one (~1GB) with the state 
files: https://www.dropbox.com/s/r6lh3sx2wojfva2/sample.tar.gz 
I would highly appreciate any suggestions.-Amir
From: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:34:25 -0400
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Fwd: Stream Tracer Scaling

Actually, if the integration is fairly load balanced across partitions, the 
streamline integration can scale OK. It is highly dependent on how the seeds 
are distributed and if the integration ends up clustering on a few processes. 
Amir:


- How big is your seed source? Does it span multiple partitions? How many seed 
points?- Do the streamlines stay together or do the move around the domain more 
independently?


Are you running on a single machine by the way? I have been thinking about 
parallelizing the streamline filter over threads, which should scale better on 
a single machine.
Best,-berk




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