Thank you for the advice, Srikanth. I'll try to start four X servers. And thank you Burlen for the scripts. I think my X11 configuration file will need to be changed.
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Burlen Loring <[email protected]> wrote: > btw, here is an batch script > <https://github.com/burlen/pvserver-configs/blob/master/servers/nautilus/3.10.0-x/start_pvserver-x.qsub> > starting ParaView with pvservers assigned to GPU's round robin, from the > SGI UV 1000 with 8 GPU. The other tricky aspect of running PV on multiple > GPU is configuring X11. Here is the xorg.conf > <https://github.com/burlen/pvserver-configs/blob/master/servers/nautilus/3.10.0-x/xorg.conf> > on this system, each card has it's own device, screen, and layout. > > Hope it helps. > Burlen > > > On 05/10/2015 09:30 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi John, > > You need to run 4 X servers, one X server per GPU > card.http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server#Multiple_GPUs_Per_Nodehttp://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server#Multiple_GPUs_Per_Node > > Sri > ________________________________ > From: ParaView [[email protected]] on behalf of John Moore > [[email protected]] > Sent: 08 May 2015 17:03 > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [Paraview] Multiple GPUs per node > > I am trying to take advantage of all four GPUs on a 32 node Amazon ec2 > cluster. However, I seem to only be able to utilize the first GPU. > > I run pvserver as follows: > > 1) Manually start an X display with the command : sudo X :0 & > 2) run pvserver with the following command (using OpenMPI's mpirun): > mpirun -np 16 pvserver -display :0.0 : -np 16 pvserver -display :0.1 > > When I try to connect the client, I get an error saying that the client could > not connect to the remote display. Everything works fine using display :0.0 > only. > > Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong here? Thank you for your time! > > John > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > >
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