[Paraview] Problem of Memory distribution

[Salman SHAHIDI]

Each time i should copy the same data in all the workstations in order to
use all them. In your opinion is it the good way?

2010/3/4 David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>

> An ad-hoc cluster like you've got is fine, as long as you have MPI set
> up on the machines and are running a copy of paraview's pvserver on it
> that has been compiled to use MPI. (Our binaries do not.)
>
> The data type (Unstructured Grid) doesn't matter, I think all VTK data
> structure types can be split up (aka streamed). It is the file format
> (*.vtk, *.vt?, *.xdmf, *.exo, *.case etc) that determines what reader
> is invoked and thus whether the data will be read in in parallel or
> not.
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
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>
>
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Salman SHAHIDI <salshahidi at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thank you David,
> >
> > My dataset is of type: "Unstructured Grid"
> > Otherwise, i have 2 other questions:
> > 1) what are the datasets that the readers are able to break up them?
> > 2) I have not a cluster, thus i copied the same dataset in all WS. Is it
> the
> > correct manner to have parallel computations?
> >
> > Faithfully yours,
> >
> >      Salman
> >
> > 2010/3/4 David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
> >>
> >> Which data file format?
> >>
> >> Not all readers are able to break up the data well, in which case
> >> paraview handles it in one of several ways, none of which is ideal.
> >>
> >> David E DeMarle
> >> Kitware, Inc.
> >> R&D Engineer
> >> 28 Corporate Drive
> >> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> >> Phone: 518-371-3971 x109
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Salman SHAHIDI <salshahidi at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi All,
> >> >
> >> > I have 8 debian workstation (WS) A,B,C,D,E,F,G, and H with paraview
> >> > 3.6.1. I
> >> > have configured all them by ssh without need to passeword. Each WS has
> 2
> >> > cores, thus 16 processors are accessible.  In WS A i have a machine
> file
> >> > consisting of all the machine names. I have copied the same dataset in
> >> > all
> >> > the machines too (I am not sure if this is correct or not). The
> problem
> >> > is
> >> > the memory consumption of ParaView. By 8 WS there is not 8 times
> memory
> >> > disponibility. I hoped, when I run on 8 machines, that the memory
> >> > consumption is 1/8 of the size on each machine, than when I use only
> one
> >> > machine. So what is the reason for this? Do I need special
> configuration
> >> > to
> >> > minimize memory consumption?
> >> >
> >> > Thank you all,
> >> >
> >> >         Salman
> >> >
> >> > ----------------------------------------
> >> >
> >> > Note:
> >> >
> >> > Command line in the first workstation A:
> >> >
> >> > mpirun --mca btl_tcp_if_include eth0 -machinefile mymachinefile.txt
> -np
> >> > 16
> >> > /usr/local/bin/pvserver  --use-offscreen-rendering
> >> > Listen on port: 11111
> >> > Waiting for client...
> >> > Client connected.
> >> >
> >> > Then in paraview executed also in WS A i add a localhost that refers
> to
> >> > all
> >> > the 8 servers.
> >> >
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