<div dir="ltr">Failed to reply all earlier. Sorry Khayam since this is the third time you see this:<div><br></div><div>Look at the paraview.benchmarks module from python. What Ken referred to is part of it. The module itself has everything you need to record and analyze the time taken by everything within arbitrary pipelines and runs of ParaView.</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_1323561002149229256gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: <a href="tel:518-881-4909" value="+15188814909" target="_blank">518-881-4909</a></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Ken Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken.martin@kitware.com" target="_blank">ken.martin@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Here is an email from Chuck from a while back, it might be useful<div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">You should be able to run the many spheres <span class="m_1323561002149229256m_-362439234761171308gmail-il">benchmark</span> script that ships with ParaView. You can run it with pvbatch:<br><br><font face="monospace,monospace">[chuck@hal9000]$ pvbatch ${ParaView_DIR}/lib/paraview-5<wbr>.1/site-packages/paraview/benc<wbr>hmark/manyspheres.py --help<br>usage: manyspheres.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT_BASENAME] [-s SPHERES]<br> [-n SPHERES_IN_SCENE] [-r RESOLUTION] [-v VIEW_SIZE]<br> [-f FRAMES] [-c] [-y]<br><br><span class="m_1323561002149229256m_-362439234761171308gmail-il">Benchmark</span> ParaView geometry rendering<br><br>optional arguments:<br> -h, --help show this help message and exit<br> -o OUTPUT_BASENAME, --output-basename OUTPUT_BASENAME<br> Basename to use for generated output files<br> -s SPHERES, --spheres SPHERES<br> The total number of spheres to render<br> -n SPHERES_IN_SCENE, --spheres-in-scene SPHERES_IN_SCENE<br> The number of spheres in the entire scene, including<br> those not rendered.<br> -r RESOLUTION, --resolution RESOLUTION<br> Theta and Phi resolution to use for the spheres<br> -v VIEW_SIZE, --view-size VIEW_SIZE<br> View size used to render<br> -f FRAMES, --frames FRAMES<br> Number of frames<br> -c, --color Enable color renderings<br> -y, --OSPRay Use OSPRAY to render<br><br><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="monospace,monospace"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The <span class="m_1323561002149229256m_-362439234761171308gmail-il">benchmark</span> will generate several spheres in the shape of a cube and sp[in the camera around them. When running in parallel, each rank will be processing a subset of the spheres. A good value to use for "resolution" is 726 since that gives you ~ 1M triangles per <span class="m_1323561002149229256m_-362439234761171308gmail-il">sphere</span>. When benching the performance of a system, I generally find it easiest to keep the resolution filed while varying the number of spheres. <br><br>For example, say you wanted to do a test run of 2048 spheres across 128 ranks (each rank renders 16 spheres) with ~ 1M triangles per <span class="m_1323561002149229256m_-362439234761171308gmail-il">sphere</span> in a 1920x1080 view for 100 frames. You would <font face="monospace,monospace">use</font>:</span><br><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="monospace,monospace">mpirun -n 128 </font><font face="monospace,monospace">pvbatch ${ParaView_DIR}/lib/paraview-5<wbr>.1/site-packages/paraview/benc<wbr>hmark/manyspheres.py -s 2048 -r 726 -v 1920,1080 -f 100<br><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This will output per-frame statistics across ranks as well as a final summary of: Frames / Sec, </span><font face="monospace,monospace"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Points / Frame, Polys / Frame, and MiPolys / Sec.</span></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_1323561002149229256h5">On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Scott, W Alan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov" target="_blank">wascott@sandia.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_1323561002149229256h5">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Only benchmarking tool I can think of is the Timer Log within ParaView. Tools/ Timer Log.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">I have to benchmark paraview performance with different configurations such as with single vs multi GPU, with or without MPI support. I want to get results like GPU render time. Parallel IO timings. Server-Client
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">But i am kind of stuck here. I don't know if paraview have some benchmarking tools. Or whats is the best way to do such benchmarks? </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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