[Paraview] mpi startup

[Charles Law]

Dave,

If geometry is small, then ParaView does not bother 
compositing.  Everything gets rendered on client (or process 0 if running 
straight MPI).

There is a slider in view properties called composite threshold.  It allows 
the user control when distributed rendering occurs.

Charles


At 10:35 AM 8/8/2003 -0500, Dave Semeraro wrote:

>Ok, success! I was able to fire up paraview on 4 nodes of our cluster. Our 
>cluster also runs
>a tiled display. I fired up the display to see what running across the 
>nodes would do. I was
>under the impression that running in parallel would place a render window 
>on each node. I
>saw no such behavior. I assume that geometry is created in parallel and 
>the head node
>renders in the default setup. I noticed some rendering controls on the 
>console. What are
>the settings for parallel rendering?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>
>At 12:39 PM 8/7/2003 -0400, Charles Law wrote:
>>Dave,
>>
>>Just running ParaView with MPI will put the user interface on the MPI 
>>process 0.
>>
>>You can also run paraview client/server:
>>
>>mpirun -np 4 paraview --server
>>paraview --client --host=...
>>
>>
>>The user interface is created on the client of course.
>>
>>Charles.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>At 09:40 AM 8/7/2003 -0500, Dave Semeraro wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I would like to know how to start paraview under mpi on a linux cluster. 
>>>I have version 1.0 of
>>>paraview and have installed it on our cluster. I can try using mpirun 
>>>with the paraview executable
>>>but I dont know how to guarantee that the console will get the user 
>>>interface part of the app.
>>>Anyone out there been down this road before? Any help or advice would be 
>>>greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>>Dave
>>>
>>>Dave Semeraro Ph.D.
>>>Visualization and Virtual Environments Group
>>>NCSA University of Illinois
>>>605 E. Springfield Ave.
>>>Champaign, IL 61820
>>>Semeraro at ncsa . uiuc . edu
>>>(217) 244-1852
>>>
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>
>Dave Semeraro Ph.D.
>Visualization and Virtual Environments Group
>NCSA University of Illinois
>605 E. Springfield Ave.
>Champaign, IL 61820
>Semeraro at ncsa . uiuc . edu
>(217) 244-1852