Jeremy,

Like the other parallel processing in ParaView, the efficiency is dictated by 
the distribution of the data. If your data distribution is highly imbalanced 
such as when all the data is on one process as in your case, then all the 
processing will happen where the data is and the rest of the processors will 
remain idle.

You could try running the D3 filter. That should redistribute the point data 
more evenly.

-Ken

From: Jérémy Santina <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Monday, June 30, 2014 2:55 AM
To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] Rendering in parallel

Good morning,

I am a novice user of Paraview and there are some aspects which I am not 
familiar with. Here is one of the issues I am having :

I run Paraview in Client-Server mode, performing the data processing and the 
rendering on the remote server, and I read a Tecplot Binary File (.plt) 
composed of more than 30 millions of points. This take a lot of time. An idea 
to speed up the calculation is to launch the server in parallel. I know that 
many readers can not read in parallel (it is the case of 
TecplotBinaryFileReader I think) so I don't expect any improvment in this way.

But, examining the Timer Log, I noticed that it doesn't speed up the rendering 
either. I tested many times displaying the points and both experiment with 
parallelism and without gave the same results (about 40-50 sec). I don't 
understand why.

Do I misinterpret the Timer Log ? Is the time of rendering long enough to 
conclude ? Do I have to set specific parameters to make it works ?

I thank you in advance for your help.

Jérémy
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