[Fwd: [Paraview] Run Paraview sort-last on several graphics devices in the same machine]

[Moreland, Kenneth]

I have never used a machine with many graphics devices, but I can tell
you that to get parallel rendering to work you will need to run ParaView
in some kind of MPI mode.  The actual mode you use (local,
client/server, client/render-server/data-server) depends on your setup,
but they are all capable of parallel rendering.

Getting each process in your MPI job to use a different graphics device
may be more tricky.  Offhand, I can't think of an easy way to do it.
Perhaps you could have mpirun (or whatever launches your MPI jobs) call
a script that somehow determines the process' rank, sets the DISPLAY
accordingly, and then calls the real ParaView implementation.

-Ken 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
> [mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On 
> Behalf Of Qinghuai Gao
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:59 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Fwd: [Paraview] Run Paraview sort-last on several 
> graphics devices in the same machine]
> 
> I asked this question last week but got no reply yet.  Wonder 
> anyone try this kind configuration to run Paraview with many 
> graphics devices in a single machine.  If so, please shine 
> some light.  Thanks in advance,
> 
> Qinghuai
>