[Paraview] parallel rendering problem

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Tue May 6 09:12:49 EDT 2008


I don't have a good understanding of the nvidia drivers but it sounds
like you would be using both cards as long as you make sure that your
server windows are distributed evenly across monitors. I am guessing
this would be true even if you are using offscreen rendering.

-berk

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Server Levent Yilmaz
<leventyilmaz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
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> > > How can I make sure that I fully utilize the GPUs on the system? (both
> > > graphics cards are identical each with dual head). And if for this I
> need to
> > > fall back to not using off screen, can you hint a bit on setting up
> > > $DISPLAY? Do I need to run multiple X servers for this?
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> > How are you outputting from the cards? Do you have both of them going
> > to the same DISPLAY and use the drivers to deal with multiple
> > monitors/inputs?
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> I believe it is so. Fwiw, attached is my xorg.conf (nvidia-settings
> generated it).  Two monitors are connected, one on each card. I hope we are
> not going too much off topic here.
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> thanks for the help.
> Levent
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> > -berk
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> Server Levent Yilmaz
> Mechanical Engineering
> University of Pittsburgh


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