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<DIV>Hello community,</DIV>
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<DIV>This is my first e-mail to the mailing list, so I hope I do it right
:-)</DIV>
<DIV>And sorry for my english, I try my best to make my mail understandable. If
you can I would be pleased if you answer in german. Also I want you to know that
I haven’t a great knowledge about informatics.</DIV>
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<DIV>Well I try to use Paraview on parallel, but I think it doesn’t work right
how I do it.</DIV>
<DIV>I use a remote PC on which I will run the Paraview client and a extern
server with up to 48 CPUs and good GPUs.</DIV>
<DIV>So I start the server using “mpirun –np ‘number’ ../pvserver” or “mpirun
–np ‘number’ ../pvserver –display localhost:0” (my Paraview is compiled with
openmpi on a linux system). Then I connect over the remote PC in Paraview to
this server (client/server mode).</DIV>
<DIV>It works, but not well. I’ve got test data (about 1GB) and it takes about
two minutes to change for example the filter from outline to wireframe. Also
when I want to move the image with drag and drop it takes about five seconds to
rerender it. I think for only 1GB it takes too long for doing this.</DIV>
<DIV>Also I’m not sure if my server uses its GPUs or only its CPUs, I don’t know
how to find it out. </DIV>
<DIV>Would it be better to use my remote PC only as a display?</DIV>
<DIV>Could you tell me how Paraview scales with the number of data sets
and number of processes. Should I use ‘x’ processes to load ‘x’ data sets? Or is
it better to use more processes than data sets (for example: Would it be better
to use 8 processes for loading 6 data sets than using 6 processes?)</DIV>
<DIV>Is there another way how I could start my server that it will work better?
Or what can I change that it will work better?</DIV>
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<DIV>I hope you can help me a little bit and give me tips how I should use
Paraview on parallel. Thanks.</DIV>
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<DIV>Greetings,</DIV>
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<DIV>Kevin</DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>