[Paraview] Running Paraview on a 32 CPU machine

[pat marion]

Hi Brani,

See Render View/Server in the Options dialog under Edit -> Settings.
Look at the Remote Rendering Parameters.  You can choose between
rendering on the client or rendering by the server.  You can
optionally compile with mesa to do software rendering offscreen on the
server.

Pat


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Branimir Sesar<bsesar at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> pat marion wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The paraview gui only uses one CPU.  To use all 32 CPUs you have to
>> connect to a paraview server, and compile with mpi enabled.  Here is a
>> link to the wiki that details the server setup:
>>
>>  http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView#Server_Setup
>>
>> What kind of work are you going to use paraview for?  Keep in mind
>> that some tasks will actually be slower when using 32 CPUs.
>
> Thank you, Pat. I finally got it running with mpirun :) Though, when I do
> volume rendering, it opens 4 windows where it shows the rendering. Is that
> normal? I just need the rendering on my paraview client window.
>
> As for the paraview usage, I'll use it to display data obtained from large
> astronomical sky surveys.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brani
>