<div dir="ltr">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>I have been trying to find some cycles to check this out myself with ParaView 4.4. Thanks to hardware issues (i.e. my big workstation's disk dying), I haven't been able to. Good news is that I found issues with OSMesa + OpenGL2 that we are working through. Give me another 1-1.5 weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>-berk</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 10:46 AM, David Trudgian <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:David.Trudgian@utsouthwestern.edu" target="_blank">David.Trudgian@utsouthwestern.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hi Berk,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Finally managed to grab an allocation of some Tesla K40 nodes on our cluster, to check GPU rendering of the full 17GB file with 2 x 12GB GPUs. I see the same
thing as I did with OSMesa rendering.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The 9GB downsampled version works great, across 2 nodes both with a single K40. Go up to the 17GB original file and nothing is rendered, no errors. Same behavior
with OPENGL or OPENGL2 backends.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">This is all on paraview 4.3.1 still – I need to find time to build OSMesa / MPI versions of 4.4 here. But, does 4.4. have any fixes that would be expected to
affect this?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p><span class="">
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David Trudgian Ph.D.<br>
Computational Scientist, BioHPC<br>
UT Southwestern Medical Center<br>
Dallas, TX 75390-9039<br>
Tel: <a href="tel:%28214%29%20648-4833" value="+12146484833" target="_blank">(214) 648-4833</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></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:<a href="mailto:berk.geveci@kitware.com" target="_blank">berk.geveci@kitware.com</a>]
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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 <<a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org" target="_blank">paraview@paraview.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Paraview] Volume Rendering 17GB 8.5 billion cell volume<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hey David,<u></u><u></u></p><div><div class="h5">
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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?<u></u><u></u></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:<u></u><u></u></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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