[Paraview] Paraview on a tiled display

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Mon Feb 2 14:28:26 EST 2009


I knew I should have looked it up before responding :), I stand corrected.

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
> Sorry, but that's not true at all.  It is in fact encouraged to have more
> processors than tiles when driving a tiled display.  All the processors,
> even the non-display ones, will be involved in the processing and parallel
> rendering work.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 1/30/09 11:43 AM, "Utkarsh Ayachit" <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> The number of processes must match the number of tiles (num of tiles =
> tdx * tdy). In your case you have 8 processes are only 2*1 = 3 tiles?
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Camilo Marin
> <igetmyjunkmailhere at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> We are trying to configure and run Paraview 3.4.0 on a tiled display with
>> the following command:
>>
>> mpirun -np 8 --mca btl ^openib,udapl --mca btl_tcp_if_exclude lo
>> --hostfile
>> /home/imagine/ParaView/hosts /bin/env DISPLAY=:0
>> ~/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView3.3-cvs/platforms/linux64Gcc/bin/pvserver
>> --server-port=1100 -tdx=1 -tdy=2
>>
>> Then when we connect throught the paraview client it doesn't show in the
>> two
>> displays we requested.
>>
>> So, is there a guideline or some kind of command/configuration we are
>> missing so it can be displayed as wished?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thnaks in advance.
>>
>>
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