[Paraview] Are there any standard benchmarks?

[Ian Grimstead]

Hi Rick,

Ah - nothing formal. Something is defintely *wrong*, there is a huge lag
between dragging and rendering. The same dataset must hit [from eyeballing
it] ~10fps on a single machine.

I was wondering if it was the dataset, so if anyone out there has a dataset
that renders sanely on cluster, and has a rough fps...

I am eventually aiming to try rendering very large datasets via ParaView,
but these datasets are output from Fluent - and its not looking promising if
I can't cope with something < 1 million polys! :o(

Regards,

Ian 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Angelini(CISD/CIV) [mailto:angel at arl.army.mil] 
> Sent: 05 August 2008 16:22
> To: Ian Grimstead
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] Are there any standard benchmarks?
> 
> How are you measuring performance?   I have a new cluster and 
> I'd like 
> to run some performance tests that compare GL rendering 
> versus software 
> rendering on multiple nodes across the cluster.    Is there a 
> repeatable 
> batch command (or similar) that can be run to measure performance?
> 
> Ian Grimstead wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am highly suspicious of the rendering speed of our 
> cluster (namely: 
> > a single low-end machine will beat an 8-node cluster, each 
> note with 
> > an Nvidia Quadro card...).
> >
> > Are there any published benchmark results I can compare against? If 
> > not, it might be something to be considered, look at the Top 500 
> > SuperComputers. Is there such a list for a rendering 
> cluster? Bit of a 
> > distraction, but a good advert for ParaView :o)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ian
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