[Paraview] how to utilize multicore processors with paraview ?

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Wed Jan 30 09:05:01 EST 2008


Setup your mpi such that you can launch 2 process per node (i.e. -np 20 with
the appropriate hostfile). ParaView does not yet support a hybrid
MPI/multi-threaded execution model.

-berk

On 30 Jan 2008 11:34:55 -0000, Raashid Baig <raashid.b at rediffmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot to everyone for your sugestions and help. I have now
> installed ParaView3.2.1 on a linux cluster and it works properly
> without any problem.
>
> ParaView scales properly for very large EnsightBinary files, however I
> have some doubtes regarding it's working.
>
> I have acess to a linux cluster with 110 nodes, each node with 2
> cloverton processor and 16 GB of RAM.
>
> When I fire pvserver on 10 nodes with the following command:
>
> /usr/local/openmpi-1.2.4/bin/mpirun -np 10 --x
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/raashid/src/lib64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH --mca btl
> ^openib,mvapi -hostfile nodes ./pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering
>
> I find that on each node only 1 core out of available 8 is being used
> by pvserver.
>
> How can I utilize all the 8 cores available on all the nodes ?
>
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