[Paraview] Run Paraview on SVA

Moreland, Kenneth kmorel at sandia.gov
Thu Nov 29 18:20:05 EST 2007


> >>
> >> (3) Except for the first render node, all the the other render
nodes
> >> consume 100% CPU constantly.
> >
> > That is not uncommon with some implementations of MPI.  When the
server
> > is sitting at idle, node 0 is listening for a socket while all
others
> > are sitting in an MPI_Recv call.  Some implementations of MPI must
> > implement MPI_Recv in a loop that constantly polls for incoming data
(I
> > guess).  At any rate there is nothing we can really do about it.
> >
> > -Ken
> >
> Does this affect the performance of paraview? Can we consider it as a
bug
> of MPI lib (we use HP MPI lib)?

No, it does not effect the performance of ParaView.  It just might warm
up your cluster a bit.

-Ken



More information about the ParaView mailing list