[Paraview] pvserver -display on windows

[Dr. X]

So before

vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow

comes online, what is the best practice handling multiple cpu cores and 
multiple gpus on windows?
Thanks a lot.
Best,
x

On 5/28/2010 8:47 AM, Francois Bertel wrote:
> Paraview cannot provide this mechanism because VTK does not.
>
> It will requires some non trivial work on the vtk OpenGL extension
> manager and vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow part.
>
> This is something I would like the VTK ARB to put on the TODO list.
>
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> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Kumar, Shree<shreekumar at hp.com>  wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Berk Geveci<berk.geveci at kitware.com>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> I am very interested in knowing this too. How does Windows control
>>> what goes to which GPU? I am guessing that each GPU is driving a
>>> different monitor? When it is offscreen rendering, how do you control
>>> which card does the rendering?
>>>        
>> For offscreen rendering, an application can redirect rendering to a specific GPU
>> by setting the GPU affinity (e.g. the WGL_NV_gpu_affinity extension).
>>
>> I don't know if ParaView provides mechanisms to specify GPU affinity.
>> Hopefully, it will not be much work to add it.
>>
>> HTH
>> -- Shree
>>
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>> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Dr. X<xunlei at renci.org>  wrote:
>>      
>>> 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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