[Paraview] mpi startup

[Tiger Wings]

Hi, Charles,

Could you please shed light on how to install IceT libraries? I can't
find any IceT file thru CVS. Thank you very much.

Tiger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-admin at paraview . org [mailto:paraview-admin at paraview . org]
On
> Behalf Of Charles Law
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 8:42 AM
> To: Dave Semeraro
> Cc: paraview at paraview . org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] mpi startup
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
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