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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I’m pretty sure that what happens is everything gets rendered – all bazillion cells, and then z buffer sorting puts the right part of the object closest to
the eye. Thus, lots and lots and lots of triangles for those few 16 servers...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Cook, Rich [mailto:cook47@llnl.gov]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 30, 2013 6:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott, W Alan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] horrible slow performance -- I must be doing something very wrong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">4 nodes was plenty, but I needed 16 servers to do the job.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I was just surprised because I figured once the data was read, all that was needed was the exterior faces and that shouldn't require much bandwidth or computation. The nodes were not gasping for memory so I'm not
sure still why it's so slow. VisIt acts the same, however. Guess I was just plain ol' wrong! bleh<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Oct 30, 2013, at 5:06 PM, "Scott, W Alan" <<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov">wascott@sandia.gov</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Yep, I should have thought of that. You basically have a billion cells/8, or 125 million cells. You are basically throwing a large
desktop computer at it with 4 servers... I would probably be running something like 16 nodes (128 cores/processes) and see how it goes...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Cook,
Rich [mailto:cook47@<a href="http://llnl.gov"><span style="color:purple">llnl.gov</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, October 30, 2013 6:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Scott, W Alan<br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org"><span style="color:purple">paraview@paraview.org</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] horrible slow performance -- I must be doing something very wrong</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I think I just wasn't throwing enough horsepower at it. I underestimated the rendering requirements of a 512^3 mesh. My bad. Adding more servers sped things up dramatically. Duh. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Oct 30, 2013, at 3:33 PM, "Cook, Rich" <<a href="mailto:cook47@llnl.gov"><span style="color:purple">cook47@llnl.gov</span></a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You are probably doing something wrong. :-) I assume you are using PV 4.0.1.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">After setting up the local client/ remote server, using more than one server, try the following:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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About. Click on Connection Information. You should see the correct number of Processes (i.e., pvservers). Now you know you are running in parallel with MPI.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Settings/ Server. Change Remote Render Threshold to 0. You are now rendering remotely on the cluster. Make the ParaView window quite small. Tools/ Timer log. Clear. Close. Sources/ Sphere. Apply. Spin it. Tools/ Timer log. Is it fast enough?
On redsky, going through a disgusting number of layers from my ParaView client to my desktop (think X forwarding), I am getting 15 to 30 frames/second. Clear the timer log.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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ParaView full screen. Spin, spin. Timer log. I get about 10 frames/second interactive, 2 frames /second still. (This represents time with my finger on the mouse, time with finger off the mouse). This tells you how fast your network is pushing 2d images
from the server to the client. (As I said, for me, it is a SSLLOOWW pipe between me and my client.)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I guess this means my network from our cluster to my desktop is crappy, I guess because of ssh tunnel? Tunnel is necessary due to topology. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier","serif""> OpenGL Dev Render, 0.000532 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:1.0in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New,courier","serif""> OpenGL Dev Render, 1.7e-05 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">By the way, if I were running the client locally (which I often do), I will get frame rates over 60/second connecting to the clusters.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If that doesn’t help, I will be in tomorrow (and tonight for another hour) – if we need to chat.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org"><span style="color:purple">paraview-bounces@paraview.org</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[mailto:paraview-<a href="mailto:bounces@paraview.org"><span style="color:purple">bounces@paraview.org</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Cook, Rich<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org"><span style="color:purple">paraview@paraview.org</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>[EXTERNAL] [Paraview] horrible slow performance -- I must be doing something very wrong</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I am running paraview in client-server mode. I start the client on my desktop, run pvserver in parallel with four instances and connect my client to the "ringleader" pvserver through an ssh tunnel. The data is
a 512x512x512 rectilinear grid in Miranda format. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I open my data and attempt to render a simple picture of my data and it is so slow I'm going to kill myself. Maybe one frame every 5 or 10 seconds. I'm imagining that the geometry is being shipped to my client,
and the client is doing the rendering, but I don't know that. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Am I doing some basic thing wrong? How can I get reasonable performance?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">âœ</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Richard Cook</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">✇</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">☎</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(office)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">☎</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(fax)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(925)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., Integrated Computing & Communications Dept.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">-- </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">âœ</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Richard Cook</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Livermore National Laboratory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">☎</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(office)
(925) 423-9605 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">☎</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(fax)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(925)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., Integrated Computing & Communications Dept.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">âœ</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Richard Cook</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Livermore National Laboratory</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557 </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">7000 East Avenue, Livermore, CA, 94550, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">☎</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(office)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">☎</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(fax)</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">(925)
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Monaco","serif"">Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., Integrated Computing & Communications Dept.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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