[Paraview] pvserver -display on windows

[Dr. X]

Thanks, Ken.
You are right, the pop up message box shows no -display option in windows.
So for my case, 4 cpu cores and 2 gpus, how shall I set up the pvserver 
to use all the resources?
thanks a lot.

Best,
x

On 5/27/2010 5:52 PM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> The --display argument is only available for X windows.  It has no 
> meaning for the native displays on Windows or Mac.  If you try to use 
> it on Windows, you should get an error message that the --display 
> argument is unknown and it should list all the arguments available. 
>  As I recall, on windows it actually pops up a dialog box listing the 
> arguments rather than printing them to stdout or stderr.  Perhaps 
> pvserver is hanging because it is waiting for you to hit the OK button 
> on all these dialog boxes which, for some reason, you are not seeing.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 5/27/10 2:10 PM, "Dr. X" <xunlei at renci.org> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>     I am trying to setup a pvserver on a workstation with 4 cores and 2
>     gpus. The workstation is running windows 7 64bit, MPICH2 1.2.1p1,  and
>     ParaView 3.8.0-RC2. Here is my local pvserver command
>
>     mpiexec -channel nemesis -n 2 .\pvserver.exe -display :0.0
>     --use-offscreen-rendering : -n 2 .\pvserver.exe -display :0.1
>     --use-offscreen-rendering
>
>     Somehow the command hangs. Is -display option available in windows? If
>     so, what is the right way to use it? I was trying to put 2 core +
>     1 gpu
>     together. If there is another way to optimize the use of cpu and gpu,
>     please let me know. Thanks a lot.
>
>     Best,
>     x
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