[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Benchmarking Paraview

[David E DeMarle]

Failed to reply all earlier. Sorry Khayam since this is the third time you
see this:

Look at the paraview.benchmarks module from python. What Ken referred to is
part of it. The module itself has everything you need to record and analyze
the time taken by everything within arbitrary pipelines and runs of
ParaView.


David E DeMarle
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com> wrote:

> Here is an email from Chuck from a while back, it might be useful
>
> You should be able to run the many spheres benchmark script that ships
> with ParaView.  You can run it with pvbatch:
>
> [chuck at hal9000]$ pvbatch ${ParaView_DIR}/lib/paraview-5
> .1/site-packages/paraview/benchmark/manyspheres.py --help
> usage: manyspheres.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT_BASENAME] [-s SPHERES]
>                       [-n SPHERES_IN_SCENE] [-r RESOLUTION] [-v VIEW_SIZE]
>                       [-f FRAMES] [-c] [-y]
>
> Benchmark ParaView geometry rendering
>
> optional arguments:
>   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
>   -o OUTPUT_BASENAME, --output-basename OUTPUT_BASENAME
>                         Basename to use for generated output files
>   -s SPHERES, --spheres SPHERES
>                         The total number of spheres to render
>   -n SPHERES_IN_SCENE, --spheres-in-scene SPHERES_IN_SCENE
>                         The number of spheres in the entire scene,
> including
>                         those not rendered.
>   -r RESOLUTION, --resolution RESOLUTION
>                         Theta and Phi resolution to use for the spheres
>   -v VIEW_SIZE, --view-size VIEW_SIZE
>                         View size used to render
>   -f FRAMES, --frames FRAMES
>                         Number of frames
>   -c, --color           Enable color renderings
>   -y, --OSPRay          Use OSPRAY to render
>
>
> The benchmark will generate several spheres in the shape of a cube and
> sp[in the camera around them.  When running in parallel, each rank will be
> processing a subset of the spheres.  A good value to use for "resolution"
> is 726 since that gives you ~ 1M triangles per sphere.   When benching
> the performance of a system, I generally find it easiest to keep the
> resolution filed while varying the number of spheres.
>
> For example, say you wanted to do a test run of 2048 spheres across 128
> ranks (each rank renders 16 spheres) with ~ 1M triangles per sphere in a
> 1920x1080 view for 100 frames.  You would use:
>
> mpirun -n 128 pvbatch ${ParaView_DIR}/lib/paraview-5
> .1/site-packages/paraview/benchmark/manyspheres.py -s 2048 -r 726 -v
> 1920,1080 -f 100
>
> This will output per-frame statistics across ranks as well as a final
> summary of: Frames / Sec, Points / Frame, Polys / Frame, and MiPolys /
> Sec.
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
>> Only benchmarking tool I can think of is the Timer Log within ParaView.
>> Tools/ Timer Log.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Paraview-developers [mailto:paraview-developers-bo
>> unces at paraview.org] *On Behalf Of *Khayam Gondal
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:00 PM
>> *To:* ParaView Developers List <paraview-developers at paraview.org>
>> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] [Paraview-developers] Benchmarking Paraview
>>
>>
>>
>> I have to benchmark paraview performance with different configurations
>> such as with single vs multi GPU, with or without MPI support. I want to
>> get results like GPU render time. Parallel IO timings. Server-Client
>> communication latency.
>>
>>
>>
>> But i am kind of stuck here. I don't know if paraview have some
>> benchmarking tools. Or whats is the best way to do such benchmarks?
>>
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