<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello,<div><br></div><div>I am trying to use PV for the first time in parallel. I have some basic questions. </div><div><br></div><div>I have installed PV 3.98 from source on my local machine (Mac OSX). I don't have the root permissions for the remote system I want to use for visaulization. So I installed the binary form of PV 3.98 on the remote system. I set up the server on that machine using the command:</div><div><br></div><div>$mpiexec -n 4 pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering</div><div><br></div><div>And then I am trying to connect to this server from the PV on my Mac. But it is giving me the following error:</div><div>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><div style="margin: 0px; "><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: Courier; ">ERROR: In /Users/pradeep/softwares/ParaView/VTK/Parallel/Core/vtkSocketCommunicator.cxx, line 812</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">vtkSocketCommunicator (0x7f953c4cee30): Could not receive tag. 1010580540</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">ERROR: In /Users/pradeep/softwares/ParaView/VTK/Parallel/Core/vtkSocketCommunicator.cxx, line 561</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">vtkSocketCommunicator (0x7f953c4cee30): Endian handshake failed.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">ERROR: In /Users/pradeep/softwares/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ClientServerCore/Core/vtkTCPNetworkAccessManager.cxx, line 332</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">vtkTCPNetworkAccessManager (0x7f953b63aa30): Failed to connect to localhost:11150. Client-Server Handshake failed. Please verify that the client and server versions are compatible with each other</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">ERROR: In /Users/pradeep/softwares/ParaView/ParaViewCore/ServerManager/Core/vtkSMSessionClient.cxx, line 253</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; "><span style="font-family: Courier; ">vtkSMSessionClient (0x7f9539ca3f50): Some error in socket processing.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><!--EndFragment--></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(128, 0, 0); "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Any ideas what is going wrong? </div><div style="margin: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Also, this remote system has 16 processors. But for bigger jobs, I can submit a job on a cluster using this remote system using a shell script where it can use over 100 processors. But I cannot install anything on this cluster. Can I use this remote cluster for using paraview faster? </div><div style="margin: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; ">The structure is something like this: Mac ---> Remote system (16 processors) ----> Cluster with over 100 nodes.</div><div style="margin: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Thanks,</div><div style="margin: 0px; ">Pradeep</div></body></html>