[Paraview] paraview performance

[David E DeMarle]

The sphere source has a hardcoded limit of 1 million triangles for some
reason .

Plugins/MantaView/VTK/vtkMantaTestSource will generate as many as you want
in parallel. The dataset is kind of nonsensical though, just a long strand
of randomly jittered triangles.

More recently I came up with the attached script that you can tune various
parameters of to get something that more closely represents typical
scientific data. I plan to push it into benchmark.py the next time I have
an opportunity to benchmark ParaView.

The logs do not indicate whether what kind of context the rendering takes
place in. That would be a welcome addition. Until then, follow Burlen's
suggestions and take a look at the VTK level test
vtkRenderingOpenGLCxx-TestFBO which spits out all kinds of useful
information.








David E DeMarle
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:31 PM, R C Bording <cbording at ivec.org> wrote:

> Hi Utkarsh,
>   Is there simple way to see if my installation of ParaView done using the
> ParaViewSuperbuild is configure with the correct gl libs to run on the
> GPUs.  Should I need to install a version with Mesa to benchmark against or
> is there a way to that without installing a second version?
>
> Do the log files show if Paraview is rendering on Hardware or software?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris B.
>
>
> R. Christopher Bording
> Supercomputing Team-iVEC at UWA
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> On 30/10/2014, at 12:36 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>
> That'd work. You can use the benchmark module [1] too to give you info
> at a finer granularity.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> [1]
> http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/py-doc/paraview.benchmark.html
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:12 PM, R C Bording <cbording at ivec.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  Is there a rendering model that you have for testing the performance of
>
> the paraview?
>
> I have install paraview on our GPU cluster and would like validated it
>
> someway other than
>
> just putting timing calls around the Render command in the
> parallelSphere.py
>
> script.
>
>
> Or is that sufficient?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris B
>
>
> R. Christopher Bording
>
> Supercomputing Team-iVEC at UWA
>
> E: cbording at ivec.org
>
> T: +61 8 6488 6905
>
>
> 26 Dick Perry Avenue,
>
> Technology Park
>
> Kensington, Western Australia.
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> 6151
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