[Paraview] mpi startup

[Charles Law]

Dave,

Tiled displays are being actively developed.  Two options have made it into 
the ParaView 1.0 release (Chromium will be later).  ParaView has a native 
option which is the default.  You have to run with the command line options 
(for a 3x4 tiled display):

server:
mpirun -np 12 paraview --server
client:
paraview --client --host=serverName -td -tdx=4 -tdy=3

This "render module"  will duplicate small geometry on all tile processes, 
and composite large geometry.



The second option uses the IceT rendering library developed at Sandia.
You have to compile IceT (available by CVS on paraview.org) and configure 
ParaView to link to the IceT libraries.
You then can run:

server:
mpirun -np 12 paraview --server
client:
paraview --client --host=serverName -td -tdx=4 -tdy=3 
--render-module=IceTDisplayRenderModule


This module does not currently have all the features of the native tiled 
display render module, but it has better compositing performance.

Charles.



At 01:56 PM 8/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Charles,
>
>I have heard Jim Ahrens say that Paraview can be configured to run on a 
>tiled display. By that
>I mean it can render to the tiles as a large image. Do you know how to get 
>that functionality
>to work or should I contact Jim? I see code called vtkPVTiled 
>DisplayManager in the source
>but I dont know how to use it. Any examples or doxygen docs exits for that 
>stuff?