[Paraview] Clarification on Paraview pvbatch run

Sebastien Jourdain sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com
Thu Jun 5 10:17:23 EDT 2014


Hi Daniele,

can you share what your script look like?

Seb



On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Daniele Obiso <
daniele.obiso at phitecingegneria.it> wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
> i'm writing here because i would understand better the functionality of
> pvbatch in Paraview.
>
> At moment i'm able to run Paraview in batch launching a python script, and
> it works good.
>
> Here the line command i launch:
> */software/Paraview/ParaView-3.12.0-Linux-x86_64/lib/paraview-3.12/mpirun
> -np 6 /software/Paraview/ParaView-3.12.0-Linux-x86_64/bin/pvbatch
> python_script.py *
>
> The problem is that monitoring at processors loads and memory consumption,
> it seems that it's actually working on one single processor; in fact if i
> switch to *-np 2* or even *-np1* nothing changes in terms of computing
> time.
> This is happening with various Paraview versions (3.10 -3.12-4.1); is
> there something missing in the line command? Some other options? Are some
> Paraview filters just working as serial?
>
>
>
>
> Another question would be about running pvbatch on clusters without
> graphic cards: i know it's possible, compiling Paraview with OSMesa, and
> adding in the command line  the option
> --*use-offscreen-rendering*. Could someone clarify also this point?
>
> Thank you all in advance!
> Daniele
>
>
>
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