[Paraview] Serial remote views of distributed data

[David Thompson]

> Can’t use just use the existing 3D view by internally shutting off  
> distributed rendering for that view, which will cause the geometry  
> to be delivered to the client?

I want neither distributed rendering nor geometry rendered at the  
client... I'd like geometry rendered on the rank 0 pvserver and image  
delivery to the client. Is that possible? (Well, OK, I know it's  
possible but how hard will it be?)

	David

>
> On 10/29/09 1:35 PM, "David Thompson" <dcthomp at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking to convert a (currently serial) VTK application into a
> ParaView-style client (one that talks to a distributed set of pvserver
> processes) and have a few questions about pqView, distributed data,
> and remote display. My situation is that I have
> 1. large-distributed datasets as sources
> 2. pipelines which extract very small subsets of the data from #1
> 3. several vtkView subclasses which do 3-d rendering/interaction of
> the subsets from #2 in a non-parallel way, and
> 4. clients which will be run on machines without decent 3-D rendering
> hardware.
>
> I would like to create new pqView classes that collect data from the
> distributed pvservers to the rank 0 process, do the rendering on the
> rank 0 pvserver process (using the serial vtkViews), and use
> ParaView's remote image delivery mechanism to present the images to
> the client.
>
> Are there existing views that do this? Is the view the place where all
> of this should be performed or are there other places where the data
> aggregation should take place? I see that some of the OverView plugins
> are client-side views but really what I'm looking for is rendering on
> the rank 0 pvserver process, not the client.
>
>         Thanks,
>         David
>
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