[Paraview] pvserver setup for multiple graphics cards on same node

[David E DeMarle]

An alternative to making a complex mpirun arguments is to supply a
machines.pvx file. That will let you assign displays to each process on the
server. See the ParaView guide p134. for details.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
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On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:20 AM, John Biddiscombe <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:

>  Christine
>
> As you will notice from the start of the thread you link to, we use
> multiple GPUs on a single node (2 for us, but 4 for you).
>
> The secret is to ensure in your case that mpi jobs
> 0,1 have Display:0
> 2,3 have Display:1
> 4,5 have Display:2
> 6,7 have Display:3
>
> and then all will be well. you'll need a rather complicated mpirun -e blah
> blah command line.
>
> JB
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I currently have one linux node with four GPUs and a single 8 core CPU I'd
> like to setup as a Paraview server. I am unsure how to go about setting
> things up so that MPI assigns each pair of cores a different GPU, or if
> problems would arise with the 2 core/1 GPU ratio. Could someone who has
> experience with this issue give me some pointers regarding the setup?
>
> This thread, for example, seems to imply that I would run multiple
> instances of pvserver, somehow pointing each to a different GPU?
> http://www.mail-archive.com/paraview@paraview.org/msg00501.html
>
> Thanks,
> Christine
>
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