ParaView/VRPN with MS-MPI

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ParaView with MS-MPI and VRPN

  • Download and install the following support packages:
    • MS Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition:
    • MS-MPI 2008
    • Git for Windows:
    • CMake:
    • Qt 4.8 for MSVC 2010
    • Python 2.7
    • Ninja build system.
      • http://martine.github.com/ninja/ for full docs. Short version:
      • Install MSVC++ (link above)
      • Download and install Python 2.7 (link above)
      • Download and install Git for Windows (link above)
      • Open “Git Bash” and run the following to checkout ninja’s source code:
      • Open “Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt” from the start menu and run the following:
        • cd \src\ninja
        • \Python27\python.exe bootstrap.py
        • The note about Windows file locking can be safely ignored.
      • Add C:\src\ninja to the system PATH:
        • Open Start menu
        • Right click on “My Computer”, select “Properties”
        • “Advanced System Settings”
        • “Environment Variables”
        • Select “Path” in “System variables”
        • Add “;C:\src\ninja” to the variable value string.
        • Close and reopen any open command prompts for this to take effect.
    • VRPN
        • In Git Bash, do:
        • Then in the MSVC command prompt, do
          • cd \src\vrpn
          • cmake-gui .
            • Note: CMake must be launched from the MSVC shell for cmake to detect the compilers correctly.
        • In the CMake GUI:
          • Set source dir to C:/src/vrpn
          • Set binary dir to C:/src/vrpn-bin
          • Click “Configure”, use ninja and default compiler
          • Make to set the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE appropriately
          • “Configure” again if needed, then “Generate”
        • In the MSVC command prompt, do
          • cd \src\vrpn-bin
          • ninja
        • If any errors about python27_d.lib appear, re-run cmake-gui, check the “advanced” option, filter to variables containing “python”, and uncheck all python variables. configure, generate, and build again.
  • Checkout ParaView source code
  • Configure ParaView
    • Run “cmake-gui” from a MSVC 2010 command prompt
    • Click “Browse source”, select “C:/src/ParaView”
    • Click “Browse build”, create and select “C:/src/ParaView-build”
    • Click “Configure”
      • Use the “Ninja” generator
      • Use the default compilers
    • Check the “Advanced” box and set the following options:
PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON True
PARAVIEW_USE_MPI True
PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI True
PARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN_VRPlugin True
    • Click “Configure” again. The MPI_* and VR options should now appear. Any *MPI* variables that are not listed below can be left blank. Set the following:
MPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Inc
MPI_CXX_INCLUDE_PATH C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Inc
MPIEXEC C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Bin/mpiexec.exe
VTK_MPIRUN_EXE C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Bin/mpiexec.exe
MPI_C_LIBRARIES C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
MPI_CXX_LIBRARIES C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
MPI_LIBRARY C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
PARAVIEW_USE_VRPN True
    • Click “Configure” again. The VRPN options are now available. Set the following options:
VRPN_INCLUDE_DIR C:/src/vrpn-bin/Headers
VRPN_LIBRARY C:/src/vrpn-bin/vrpn.lib
    • Click “Configure”
    • Click “Generate”
  • Build ParaView
    • Open Visual Studio Command Prompt 2010
    • Enter the following:
      • cd \src\ParaView-build
      • ninja
  • Running ParaView with MS-MPI
    • At this point, you should be able to run ParaView in parallel using the MS mpiexec executable:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2\Bin\mpiexec.exe" -np 2 C:\src\ParaView-build\bin\pvserver.exe