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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Yep, I should have thought of that.&nbsp; You basically have a billion cells/8, or 125 million cells.&nbsp; You are basically throwing a large desktop computer at it
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 30, 2013 6:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott, W Alan<br>
<b>Cc:</b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] horrible slow performance -- I must be doing something very wrong<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I think I just wasn't throwing enough horsepower at it. &nbsp;I underestimated the rendering requirements of a 512^3 mesh. &nbsp;My bad. &nbsp;Adding more servers sped things up dramatically. &nbsp;Duh.&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Oct 30, 2013, at 3:33 PM, &quot;Cook, Rich&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:cook47@llnl.gov">cook47@llnl.gov</a>&gt;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On Oct 29, 2013, at 5:45 PM, &quot;Scott, W Alan&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov">wascott@sandia.gov</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Yep.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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 Settings/ Server.&nbsp; Change Remote Render Threshold to 0.&nbsp; You are now rendering remotely on the cluster.&nbsp;&nbsp; Make the ParaView window quite small.&nbsp; Tools/ Timer log.&nbsp; Clear.&nbsp; Close.&nbsp; Sources/ Sphere.&nbsp; Apply.&nbsp; Spin it.&nbsp; &nbsp;Tools/ Timer log.&nbsp; Is it fast enough?&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">0.054 sec/render == 18.5 FPS<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">About 4.5-5 FPS interactive, 3.5-5.0 still &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I guess this means my network from our cluster to my desktop is crappy, I guess because of ssh tunnel? &nbsp;Tunnel is necessary due to topology.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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 ParaView small screened once again.&nbsp; Change the sphere’s Theta resolution to 1000 and Phi Resolution to 1000.&nbsp; You now have around 2 million cells.&nbsp; Spin, spin.&nbsp; Timer log.&nbsp; This represents the speed of the cluster, since we are having to render all of those
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<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OpenGL Dev Render,&nbsp; 7e-05 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OpenGL Dev Render,&nbsp; 6.7e-05 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OpenGL Dev Render,&nbsp; 0.000532 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OpenGL Dev Render,&nbsp; 1.7e-05 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Still Render,&nbsp; 0.734462 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OpenGL Dev Render,&nbsp; 0.000118 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OpenGL Dev Render,&nbsp; 0.000521 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OpenGL Dev Render,&nbsp; 1.6e-05 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-family:&quot;Courier New,courier&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Still Render,&nbsp; 0.723525 seconds</span><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">By the way, if I were running the client locally (which I often do), I will get frame rates over 60/second connecting to the clusters.&nbsp;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I thought this would show the problem, but it looks like data is decomposed correctly. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Would like that -- must still be missing something obvious…&nbsp;<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"><a href="mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org"><span style="color:purple">paraview-bounces@paraview.org</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>[mailto:paraview-<a href="mailto:bounces@paraview.org"><span style="color:purple">bounces@paraview.org</span></a>]<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><b>On
 Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></b>Cook, Rich<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>Tuesday, October 29, 2013 6:16 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org"><span style="color:purple">paraview@paraview.org</span></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>[EXTERNAL] [Paraview] horrible slow performance -- I must be doing something very wrong</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I am running paraview in client-server mode. &nbsp;I start the client on my desktop, run pvserver in parallel with four instances and connect my client to the &quot;ringleader&quot; pvserver through an ssh tunnel. &nbsp;The data is
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">I open my data and attempt to render a simple picture of my data and it is so slow I'm going to kill myself. &nbsp;Maybe one frame every 5 or 10 seconds. &nbsp;I'm imagining that the geometry is being shipped to my client,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Am I doing some basic thing wrong? &nbsp;How can I get reasonable performance?<o:p></o:p></p>
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