[Paraview] Tiled display

[Moreland, Kenneth]

It all should work.  At one time we were driving 12x4 display (~62 million pixels) with graphics cards that only supported 1280x1024.  IceT is careful to only allocate buffers that can be displayed on the local graphics card.  It is also careful not to collect really big images on any one node.  None of the algorithms hold more than two or three tile images at a time (for example, one for sending, one for receiving, and one for aggregation).

You can take my word for it, or you can browse some of the technical publications on IceT.  I have collected them at this web site.

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~kmorel/IceT/index.html

-Ken


On 10/22/09 9:13 AM, "Greg Abram" <gda at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:

No, I mean the whole display.  I was just wondering since (I think) cards don't generally support >8K windows, and naively, a simple sort-last algorithm uses full-size targets for rendering.  We have a 15x5 tiled display, and I'm thinking about running to the whole thing.

Gregory D. Abram
Texas Advanced Computing Center
JJ Pickle Research Campus - ROC 1.101 Bldg 196
10100 Burnet Road
Austin, Texas 78758-4497

gda at tacc.utexas.edu
(512) 471-8196
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From: Berk Geveci [berk.geveci at kitware.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:08 AM
To: Greg Abram
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Subject: Re: [Paraview] Tiled display

You mean each tile has >8K or the whole display is >8K? Ken Moreland
is the Ice-T expert here but I don't think there is any hard-coded
limitation on either sizes. Are you running into a problem?

-berk

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Greg Abram <gda at tacc.utexas.edu> wrote:
> Hi, y'all -
>
> According to some web pages I found (e.g. https://visualization.hpc.mil/wiki/Paraview_Tiled-Display_Mode) PV uses sort-last rendering for tiled displays.  If thats true, does it support displays of >8K width?
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
>
> Gregory D. Abram
> Texas Advanced Computing Center
> JJ Pickle Research Campus - ROC 1.101 Bldg 196
> 10100 Burnet Road
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>
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