[Paraview] mpi startup

Charles Law charles . law at kitware . com
Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:28:55 -0400


Instructions to get IceT:

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at paraview . org:/cvsroot/IctT login

password: icet

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at paraview . org:/cvsroot/IctT co IceT


Charles.


At 04:13 PM 8/19/2003 -0500, Tiger Wings wrote:
>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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