[Paraview] workstation slow render

[Mathieu Westphal]

What is the content of the "Help->About" window ?

Mathieu Westphal

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:02 PM, andrealphus <andrealphus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trying to make some animations on a new workstation (everything is local!)
> and things are unbelievably slow (my 8 year old mac pro runs faster with
> paraview!)
>
> System specs:
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v4 @ 2.30GHz (18 cores)
> 128 Gb ram
> NVIDIA Corporation GM204GL [Quadro M4000]
> Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
>
>
> I'm using the proprietary nvidia drivers. I installed from source (git),
> using;
> ccmake -DQt5_DIR=$QTLOC/Qt5.6.2/5.6/gcc_64/lib/cmake/Qt5 ./$PVLOC/ParaView
>
> enable python, turned off shared libs, and enabled mpi
>
> any thoughts? size of the model doesnt matter, just that it runs faster on
> an 8 year old machine with PV4, then it does on this workstation.
>
> Any way to make a single instance of ./bin/paraview use more than one core?
>
> Any way to check that gpu rendering is occuring correctly?
>
> these questions were all searched for online but not adequately answered.
>
>
>
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