[Paraview] client/server with mpich-gm

David Thompson dcthomp at sandia . gov
Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:23:41 -0700


> I have a question about how to use paraview in client server mode with 
> mpich-gm. ... I then try to start the client without using mpirun ( ie
> just paraview -client ... etc) and I get an error asking me for some
> GM magic number.
There are a couple of solutions...
1. Use a different binary (compiled with plain mpich) for the client.
   This works because the client/server communication is done over 
   sockets, not MPI.
2. Set up environment variables with dummy values to satisfy the
   mpich gm device initialization; MPI isn't used, so you just
   have to survive MPI_Init().

		David