<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #3366ff"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Hi, I would like to clarify some stuff about data server and render server</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #3366ff"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Dataserver = 2 node cluster machine, </font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #3366ff"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Renderserver = Quad Core Intel Xeon machine, 1GB RAM, 80GB hard disk</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #3366ff"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Paraview Client = Intel Pentium Dual Core, 160 GB Hard disk, 2GB RAM</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #3366ff"><font face="arial,sans-serif">a)Umm, is this ok .. or should I reassemble them… any idea.. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Cause I have read that the render server should not consist of more nodes that the dataserver.. but doesn't the memory matter also?</font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #3366ff"><font face="arial,sans-serif">b)I am using OpenMPI, do I need to install any batch scheduling program ..any suggestions.. </font></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #3366ff"><font face="arial,sans-serif">c) I have a 750,000 points * 53 timesteps to render. And I found this fact on paraview wiki</font></span></b></p>
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<font face="arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">1.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN">Sort first (collection): Small objects can be collected to the first node and rendered locally. In this mode, the polygons are collected only when the source generating them is modified. Although this collection might take time, it is done only once and rendering is fast. </span></font></p>
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<font face="arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="mso-list: Ignore">2.<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN">Sort last (distributed rendering): In this mode, first, each process renders their scene, then these scenes are composited using the depth buffer. This is done every render. Although this is slower for smaller datasets, it is the only scalable solution when the dataset become large</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; mso-hyphenate: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN"><font face="arial,sans-serif">I don't really understand this thing, how does it apply to my data. I think it falls under the 2<sup>nd</sup> option because the dataset is large.. but I will be using only one quad core machine.. mentioned above</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="COLOR: #3366ff"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Any help.. Could someone point out to me ..? Thanks</font></span></b></p>
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