[Paraview] Parallel Scalability

[Dr. Olaf Ippisch]

Dear Paraview developers and users,

I tried to run paraview in parallel using a python script. I compiled a
server including OpenMPI support and support for MESA off-screen
rendering and started the server using mpirun. The I connected from a
python script (see attachment). I could see that there are two threads
both taking 100% CPU time. However, there was absolutely no speed-up.
The runtime using two processors was completely the some. The data sets
were rather large (about 100 million unknowns in 3D, 512 x 512 x 405).
The result looked like the result with one process, but the time needed
was also the same. I am sure that I am making some error either in the
setup or I am missing something in the python program. Do you have any
suggestions?

Best regards,
Olaf Ippisch

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Dr. Olaf Ippisch
Universität Heidelberg
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, Raum 4.24
Tel: 06221/548252   Fax: 06221/548884
Mail: Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, 69120 Heidelberg
e-mail: <olaf.ippisch at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
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