I think I am able to reproduce the issue. I'll get back to you once I know more.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Gunnar Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, I forgot to mention the data type in my previous post. > You are indeed right, it is an unstructured grid. In order to make sure it > is not related to my input files, I tried with the example case XX as well > with the same results. > ParaView was built with the OpenGL2 rendering backend, as this seems to be > the new standard also with the pre-compiled clients. > I think this is not a MPI issue, as also starting only a single process does > not solve the problem. > > Gunnar > > 2016-07-11 20:35 GMT+02:00 Utkarsh Ayachit <[email protected]>: >> >> Odd. I wonder if it's driver related. Did you build ParaView with >> VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND set to OpenGL2? Also, "-tdx"/"-tdy" could indeed >> slow things down as it's now rendering for a tiledisplay rather than >> for a client. The rendering works in that case, since the client is >> rendering on it's own. Also what is the datatype you're rendering? I'd >> suspect it's an unstructured grid or a multiblock of unstructured >> grid. >> >> Utkarsh >> >> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Gunnar Jansen <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Dear ParaView users, >> > >> > I recently set up a pvserver on our small cluster. I used the most >> > recent >> > stable ParaView release 5.1 and compiled from source. >> > >> > The connection and rendering in client/server mode works fine in all >> > representations except the "Volume" rendering. Here, depending on the >> > model, >> > either no model is shown at all (just the standard 3D render screen), or >> > the >> > previous representation with artifacts shows up. This seems to be a >> > problem >> > of the --use-offscreen-rendering flag that I use in the pvserver >> > startup. >> > >> > I run the server on a node with 2 CPU (with 10 cores each) and 2 Nvidia >> > Tesla K40c. I start the server with: >> > >> > xinit /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.6.5/bin/mpirun -np 4 pvserver -display :0.0 >> > --use-offscreen-rendering : -np 4 pvserver -display :0.1 >> > --use-offscreen-rendering >> > >> > In the client the threshold for remote rendering is set to 0. >> > >> > If I pass additionally the -tdx=1 and -tdy=1 flags the volume rendering >> > is >> > performed correctly, but the overall speed is decreased greatly. >> > >> > Thank you in advance for any help! >> > >> > Gunnar >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ 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
