<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Rick,<br><br>This is a bit of a brain dump so I'll try to get a
blog post, or maybe even a Kitware Source article on it soon, but for
now, I've got the new scripts ready as a merge request into ParaView but if
you want to run it against existing installations (it should work across
a range of versions) the scripts will need some slight modifications. I've modified a few lines lines to enable this and you
can get the modified benchmark scripts in my personal github account
here:<br></div><br></div>Repo: <a href="https://github.com/chuckatkins/miscelaneous-scripts.git" target="_blank">https://github.com/chuckatkins/miscelaneous-scripts.git</a><br></div>Folder: scripts/paraview/benchmarknew<br><br></div>You should be able to run the "manyspheres" benchmark directly with pvbatch using --help for argument options:<br><br>p<span style="font-family:monospace,monospace">vbatch benchmarknew/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]<br><br>Benchmark 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</span><br>[chuck.atkins@hal9000 bench]$ <br><br></div>Typical arguments I use:<br><ul><li>Resolution: 725, that ends up with ~1M triangles per sphere</li><li>Spheres: try to keep as an even multiple of MPI ranks, that way each rank has an even work load</li><li>Spheres
in scene: leave blank, it defaults to the previous number of spheres
argument. This is used for testing the rendering of a small number of
spheres in a larger context. For example, if you render 1000 spheres
across 100 MPI ranks, thus 10 spheres per node, you can run again to
test the single node performance (w/o compositing) by running on a
single node with -s 10 -n 1000.</li><li>View size: 1920,1080 this will set the size of the render window.</li><li>Color:
Nice to enable for 1 run since frame 0 is saved as a tiff but decreases
the rendering performance so leave it off when trying to identify
rendering limits<br></li></ul><p>Given that, if I wanted to render 16B triangles across 256 MPI ranks, I would run:</p><p>mpirun
-n 256 /path/to/pvbatch --use-offscreen-rendering
benchmarknew/manyspheres.py -s 16384 -r 725 -v 1920,1080 -f 10 -o
"manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m"</p><p>This will result in the following files:</p><ul><li>manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m.args.txt</li><ul><li>The arguments the benchmark was run with<br></li></ul><li>manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m.mem.txt</li><ul><li>Memory info for each pvserver at each frame<br></li></ul><li>manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m.logs.raw.bin</li><ul><li>Raw log data that be loaded with logbase.load()<br></li></ul><li>manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m.logs.parsed.bin</li><ul><li>Parsed log data that be loaded with Python pickel<br></li></ul><li>manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m.scene.f0.tiff</li><ul><li>Rendered image of the scene from Frame 0<br></li></ul><li>manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m.stats.r0f0.txt</li><ul><li>Log information for Rank 0, Frame 0<br></li></ul><li>manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m.stats.frame.txt</li><ul><li>Statistics per-frame calculated across ranks<br></li></ul><li>manyspheres_16384s_725r_256m.stats.summary.txt</li><ul><li>Statistics calculated across all frames<br></li></ul></ul><p>Note that you can just as easily run it on a single node without MPI and you'll get valid numbers. Please let me know if you have any questions or need help trying to run it.</p><p><br></p><p>Thanks<br></p><p>- Chuck<br></p><div><div><div><div><div><div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:02 AM, David E DeMarle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave.demarle@kitware.com" target="_blank">dave.demarle@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"><div><div>It is still in <a href="https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/692" target="_blank">https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/merge_requests/692</a> which hasn't been merged yet because we have a few changes left to make in it. It would be great if you could try it and comment in the gitlab review on anything you find.<br><br>I expect it will be merged next week. Note that although this won't show up in a release until ParaView 7.1, it is possible to copy to use with older ParaViews.<br><br></div></div><br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div>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>
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It takes resolution and numspheres arguments. numspheres is the total number of objects in the scene and each processors makes a diffent set of them. Resolution is the phi&theta resolution of each that controls the number of polygons each sphere has.<br>
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<div>Is there a way to jack up the number of polygons that the script generates?</div>
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