The client application is comparatively lightweight, so I think you can generally expect better performance for data intensive tasks with N server processes instead of N-1. Note, you can run more than N if you wish, but you likely will see performance degrade sharply.<br>
<br>Of course how it scales in practice depends greatly on the problem. What ParaView scales well at is data intensive problems, where it benefits most because there is N times the available RAM when it is run on a cluster with N nodes, an to a lesser degree on having N CPUs to run through the data.<br>
<br clear="all">David E DeMarle<br>Kitware, Inc.<br>R&D Engineer<br>28 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: 518-371-3971 x109<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:20 AM, bassaidai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bassaidai0@gmail.com">bassaidai0@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>if we have a workstation with N processor (on wich we run paraview and pvserver in two separate shells) must we run pvserver in parallel on a number of processors strictly smaller than N?<br>For example, if we have N=4 and in the first shell we run ParaView (with "paraview"), in the other shell can we use maximum 3 processors (with "mpirun -np 3 pvserver") or can we use all processors (with "mpirun -np 4 pvserver")?<br>
<br>Thank you very much<br><br>
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