[vtkusers] How to configure use MPI with VTK?

Jeff Lee jeff at cdnorthamerica.com
Wed Dec 18 09:34:37 EST 2002


Wong WJ wrote:

> Hi,
> I need to know what is needed for to configure to use MPI with VTK?
> I tried using the parallel examples
> TaskParallelismWithPort
> TaskParallelism
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> Do I need to change any code in order to use it to run under MPICH in 
> windows setup??
> It can only run thread right now, but I want to run it for MPI. 

this is configurable in cmake - USE_MPI should be on, then cmake will 
ask for various paths to mpi distrib,

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> 2) For output and input port, will it still work under MPI over a 
> network? 

Input/Output port do not depend on mpi, so yes.  ParallelIso example 
uses this, as well as some other parallel examples.
-Jeff

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> Tks....
> WongWJ
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