crow9350 1 Posted June 25, 2020 How can I set up Flip distributed Simulation on a Single machine? and do I need Houdini HQ? Houdini Master Class demonstrates distribution sim on multiple machines, so I have no idea how to set it up in a single machine. I know it requires more memory, but what I'm trying to do is too big so it seems impossible to do it with just regular setting. I anticipate 1gb of file size of fluid or white water per frame if I do it with regular setting, I think it would take up to 2 to 3weeks on my computer. and I'm not sure my computer can handle it. (my cpu is amd ryzen2700, ram64gb, windows10) Do you think it is still better without distribution? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tamagochy 69 Posted June 25, 2020 I think you need to do more simple project or find the way to simplify current. Distribution on one machine have no profits. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crow9350 1 Posted June 25, 2020 (edited) Yeah, " find the way to simplify current" was the last thing wanted to do. but, it seems that I have to change my mind. thanks. Edited June 25, 2020 by crow9350 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HM_2020 13 Posted January 12 (edited) On 25/06/2020 at 7:07 PM, tamagochy said: I think you need to do more simple project or find the way to simplify current. Distribution on one machine have no profits. What if you need to do a flip sim that requires 10 km and 100 million particles but can only sim 20 million before your machine crashes? Can you use distributed with/without HQueue to slice it up and just sim 5x on the one machine, but in the end have a nice 100 mill sim? Edited January 12 by HM_2020 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dleonhardt 41 Posted January 12 Distribution on a single machine is only really useful for faster sim times. There are a couple of parts of the FLIP solver which are still single threaded. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lukeiamyourfather 191 Posted January 13 12 hours ago, dleonhardt said: Distribution on a single machine is only really useful for faster sim times. There are a couple of parts of the FLIP solver which are still single threaded. This. It can be faster if the synchronization between the slices doesn't take longer than the single threaded parts would take on their own. Doing this doesn't turn 64GB of RAM into 512GB of RAM. All of the slices still need to be running concurrently so they can be synchronized after each timestep. If anything it would use even more RAM running a distributed simulation on one machine compared to a single simulation. Here's some cool reading if this stuff is interesting to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HM_2020 13 Posted January 21 On 13/01/2022 at 12:36 AM, lukeiamyourfather said: This. It can be faster if the synchronization between the slices doesn't take longer than the single threaded parts would take on their own. Doing this doesn't turn 64GB of RAM into 512GB of RAM. All of the slices still need to be running concurrently so they can be synchronized after each timestep. If anything it would use even more RAM running a distributed simulation on one machine compared to a single simulation. Here's some cool reading if this stuff is interesting to you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law Well that sucks. So you can not simply sim one slice, finish, sim another etc on one box? Damn... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dleonhardt 41 Posted January 21 22 minutes ago, HM_2020 said: Well that sucks. So you can not simply sim one slice, finish, sim another etc on one box? Damn... No simple way unfortunately. You could do it similarly to PhoenixFD's Cascade Simulation feature, but transferring sim data from one domain to another and have it be relatively seamless, is not trivial to do to say the least. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tamagochy 69 Posted January 21 What worth to try its make few sims with lower res and combine them, and then mesh result Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HM_2020 13 Posted January 21 1 hour ago, tamagochy said: What worth to try its make few sims with lower res and combine them, and then mesh result Yeah I thought of that, just do a bunch of small domains with edge boundaries, combine all the flip sims into one with soft edges, then do whitewater from that... but it will look like mixed sims a bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tamagochy 69 Posted January 24 No, you need sim all domain with res that your RAM allow you to sim, but each next sim with different seed, then combine and mesh. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
