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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Yes, unsigned short values.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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David Trudgian Ph.D.<br>
Computational Scientist, BioHPC<br>
UT Southwestern Medical Center<br>
Dallas, TX 75390-9039<br>
Tel: (214) 648-4833</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Berk Geveci [mailto:berk.geveci@kitware.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 15, 2015 2:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> David Trudgian <David.Trudgian@UTSouthwestern.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> ParaView Mailing List <paraview@paraview.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] Volume Rendering 17GB 8.5 billion cell volume<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am hoping to have some time to play around with volume rendering and hopefully tracking this issue, one thing that I wanted to clarify: it sounds from you description that you have a short (2 byte) value. Is that correct?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-berk<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 5:00 PM, David Trudgian <<a href="mailto:david.trudgian@utsouthwestern.edu" target="_blank">david.trudgian@utsouthwestern.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<br>
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We have been experimenting with using Paraview to display very volumes from very<br>
large TIFF stacks generated by whole-brain microscopy equipment. The test stack<br>
has dimensions of 5,368x10,695x150. Stack is assembled in ImageJ from individual<br>
TIFFs, exported as a RAW and loaded into paraview. Saved as a .vti for<br>
convenience. Can view slices fine in standalone paraview client on a 256GB machine.<br>
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When we attempt volume rendering on this data across multiple nodes with MPI<br>
nothing appears in the client. Surface view works as expected. On switching to<br>
volume rendering the client's display will show nothing. There are no messages<br>
from the client or servers - no output.<br>
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This is happening when running pvserver across GPU nodes with NVIDIA Tesla<br>
cards, or using CPU only with OSMESA. pvserver memory usage is well below what<br>
we have on the nodes - no memory warnings/errors.<br>
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Data is about 17GB, 8 billion cells. If we downsize to ~4GB or ~9GB then we can<br>
get working volume rendering. The 17GB never works regardless of scaling<br>
nodes/mpi processes. The 4/9GB will work on 1 or 2 nodes.<br>
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Am confused by the lack of rendering, as we don't have memory issues, or an<br>
other messages at all. Am wondering if there are any inherent limitation, or I'm<br>
missing something stupid.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Dave Trudgian<br>
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