[vtkusers] help with parallel vtk

[Berk Geveci]

	Did you try to run other test examples, i.e. TestMPI &
	TestController ? (in the contrib/examplesCxx directory)


Brian Fix wrote:
> 
> Dear VTK Users,
>         I have been using vtk for a couple of months now, and in
> the last couple of weeks i have been experimenting with parrallel
> vtk. I have accesss to an mpi linux cluster of intel machines.
> 
>         I beleive I am using the right configuration, because I am
> able to compile everything, and make the examples, but when I try
> to run the ParallelIso example in contrib/examplesCxx/, on more
> then 3 processors, it will not work. MPI starts the processes on
> the other machines, but they return no data at all.
> 
> These are the pertinent lines of the user make:
> 
> MESA_INCLUDE=-I/usr/local/include/GL
> MESA_LIB=/usr/local/lib/libGL.so
> 
> MPI_INCLUDE=-I/usr/include
> MPI_LIBS=/usr/lib/libmpich.a /usr/lib/libpmpich.a
> 
> I configured vtk as follows:
> 
> ./configure --with-mesa --with-shared --with-contrib --with-patented --with-mpi
> 
> Im fairly sure our mpi is installed right, its mpi 1.2. We also
> tried using mpi 1.1 . I have run other jobs using mpi, and not
> had any problems on many processors. We have done some intiial
> debugging, and we believe that vtk is not calling mpi init
> properly, but we dont know why this happens with 4 processors,
> but works with 3. Has anyone else had this problem besides us?
> Have I over looked something? Have we neglected some mpi compile
> option?
> 
> If anyone can help it would be most apreciated.
> 
> Thank for your time.
> 
> Brian Fix
> 
> _______________________________________________
> This is the private VTK discussion list.
> Please keep messages on-topic. Check the FAQ at: <http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/vtkfaq>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers