vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection Class Reference

class to create socket connections between two servers More...

#include <vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection.h>

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
	vtkTypeRevisionMacro (vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection, vtkObject)
void	PrintSelf (ostream &os, vtkIndent indent)
void	SetupWaitForConnection ()
void	WaitForConnection ()
void	Connect ()
void	SetPortInformation (unsigned int processNumber, int portNumber, const char *hostName)
void	GetPortInformation (vtkMPIMToNSocketConnectionPortInformation *)
void	SetMachineName (unsigned int idx, const char *name)
void	SetNumberOfConnections (int)
virtual int	GetNumberOfConnections ()
virtual vtkSocketCommunicator *	GetSocketCommunicator ()
virtual void	SetMachinesFileName (const char *)
virtual void	SetPortNumber (int)
Static Public Member Functions
vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection *	New ()
Protected Member Functions
void	LoadMachinesFile ()
virtual void	SetController (vtkMultiProcessController *)
virtual void	SetSocketCommunicator (vtkSocketCommunicator *)
	vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection ()
	~vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection ()

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Detailed Description

class to create socket connections between two servers

class used to create socket connections between the render and data servers. This used for example when data is on a super computer (SGI, IBM, etc) and Rendering on a Linux cluster with hardware graphics support. This problem is known as the "M" to "N" geometry load redistribution problem. It addresses the common case where there is a significante mismatch in the size of large parallel computing resources and the often smaller parallel hardward-accelerated rendering resources. The larger number of processors on the compute servers are called M, and the smaller number of rendering processors are call N. This class is used to create N vtkSocketCommunicator's that connect the first N of the M processes on the data server to the N processes on the render server.

Definition at line 41 of file vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection.h.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection (   )  [protected]

vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::~vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection (   )  [protected]

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Member Function Documentation

vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection* vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::New (   )  [static]

vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::vtkTypeRevisionMacro (  vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection  , vtkObject  )

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::PrintSelf (  ostream &  os, vtkIndent  indent )

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::SetNumberOfConnections (  int   )

Set the number of connections to be made.

virtual int vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::GetNumberOfConnections (   )  [virtual]

Set the number of connections to be made.

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::SetupWaitForConnection (   )

Setup the wait for connection, but do not wait yet. This should determine the network to be used and the port to be used.

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::WaitForConnection (   )

SetupStartWaitForConnection must be called first. This method will start waiting for a connection to be made to it.

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::Connect (   )

Connect to remote server.

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::SetPortInformation (  unsigned int  processNumber, int  portNumber, const char *  hostName )

Set up information about the remote connection.

virtual vtkSocketCommunicator* vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::GetSocketCommunicator (   )  [virtual]

Return the socket communicator for this process.

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::GetPortInformation (  vtkMPIMToNSocketConnectionPortInformation *   )

Fill the port information values into the port information object.

virtual void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::SetMachinesFileName (  const char *   )  [virtual]

Set the name of the configure file containing the names of the render hosts.

virtual void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::SetPortNumber (  int   )  [virtual]

Set port to use, if the value is 0, then the system will pick the port.

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::SetMachineName (  unsigned int  idx, const char *  name )

Add a machine name.

void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::LoadMachinesFile (   )  [protected]

virtual void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::SetController (  vtkMultiProcessController *   )  [protected, virtual]

virtual void vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection::SetSocketCommunicator (  vtkSocketCommunicator *   )  [protected, virtual]

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• Servers/Common/vtkMPIMToNSocketConnection.h

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