Can anyone speculate on what sort of performance increase would be possible if I ran an MPI-enabled ParaView on a single standalone workstation? The machine is a new iMac with 32GB RAM, 8 cores, and an AMD Radeon R9 M295X (4 GB VRAM). I'm volume rendering a 4D NetCDF dataset (72 240 MB files). I'm worried that contention for the GPU among the multiple MPI processes will result in similar (or worse) performance. Using a single ParaView process, it takes about 15-20 seconds to volume render a single time step and I'm looking for ways to reduce the rendering time. I'd just like to know if there is even a small chance that I'll get better performance before going through the process of building ParaView from source on OSX. I've done it before on Linux, so this will be a new experience.
One more question ... Would it be more efficient to combine/concat these individual files into a single, larger NetCDF file? Or does ParaView perform better with smaller files? Thanks, -Mike _______________________________________________ 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 Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
