[Paraview] paraview performance

[David E DeMarle]

hate that...

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:26 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>
wrote:

> The sphere source has a hardcoded limit of 1 million triangles for some
> reason .
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:31 PM, R C Bording <cbording at ivec.org> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Do the log files show if Paraview is rendering on Hardware or software?
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>> Cheers,
>> Chris B.
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>> R. Christopher Bording
>> Supercomputing Team-iVEC at UWA
>> E: cbording at ivec.org
>> T: +61 8 6488 6905
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>> On 30/10/2014, at 12:36 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
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>> That'd work. You can use the benchmark module [1] too to give you info
>> at a finer granularity.
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>> Utkarsh
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>> [1]
>> http://www.paraview.org/ParaView3/Doc/Nightly/www/py-doc/paraview.benchmark.html
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>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:12 PM, R C Bording <cbording at ivec.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>>  Is there a rendering model that you have for testing the performance of
>>
>> the paraview?
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>> I have install paraview on our GPU cluster and would like validated it
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>> someway other than
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>> just putting timing calls around the Render command in the
>> parallelSphere.py
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>> script.
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>> Or is that sufficient?
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris B
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>>
>> R. Christopher Bording
>>
>> Supercomputing Team-iVEC at UWA
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>> E: cbording at ivec.org
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>> T: +61 8 6488 6905
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>> 26 Dick Perry Avenue,
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>> Technology Park
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>> Kensington, Western Australia.
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>> 6151
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