[Paraview] running paraview in parallel
burlen
burlen.loring at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 16:19:35 EST 2010
By the way, you typically would not want to run the client remotely. I'm
assuming your trying it just for testing purposes. You might be able to
get it to work by using X forwarding. ssh -X ... when you login.
burlen wrote:
> Apparently your cluster doesn't have X11 server started. The error
> message reports this path because __FILE__ cpp macro is used.
>
> Question: Why is it a problem to install and run ParaView from your
> home folder? It should be OK.
>
> Vishwa wrote:
>> Thankyou all for responding again..:)
>>
>> I tried to compile paraview and to only hit a wall after wall as I
>> have to install it to my local folder due to not having administrator
>> privileges..
>>
>> so i downloaded the binaries last night and checked that it worked..
>>
>> Today to my surprise, when i try to open paraview in the hpc
>> headnode, where i downloaded the binaries, it gives the following
>> error..
>>
>> [vishwa at hpc4 ~]$ paraview
>> ERROR: In
>>
>> /home/kitware/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
>>
>> line 632
>> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x143bb10): Cannot create GLX context.
>> Aborting.
>>
>>
>> and i dont' have /home/kitware etc...directory...so i dont understand
>> what is happening..
>>
>> I made sure that i included the path of the bin and lib in the newly
>> downloaded binary..
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> Regards,
>> vishwa
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:38 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com
>> <mailto:burlen.loring at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Also be aware that there is a bug in ParaView, where if the server
>> startup command doesn't return for some reason, ssh turns into an
>> orphan process and will not relinquish the ports it used,
>> preventing any further use of those ports.
>>
>> http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=10283
>>
>> I did submit a patch to fix it but it has yet to be applied.
>>
>>
>> burlen wrote:
>>
>> Your command isn't quite right, specifically how you are
>> trying to specify the compute node.
>>
>> Take a look at the section here,
>>
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/Reverse_connection_and_port_forwarding#Reverse_Connection_Over_an_ssh_Tunnel
>>
>>
>>
>> It's a little closer to your situation.
>>
>> Vishwa wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for the reply..I did look at the wiki and tried the
>> following..
>>
>> I set up a server/client reverse connection and trired to
>> connect.. but i coudn't.. this was the command that i gave
>> for the server.. olivegarden is the hostname of my laptop.
>>
>> ssh -i /home/dagarshali/.ssh/id_rsa
>> vishwa at hpc4.iastate.edu <mailto:vishwa at hpc4.iastate.edu>
>> <mailto:vishwa at hpc4.iastate.edu
>> <mailto:vishwa at hpc4.iastate.edu>> node083 pvserver
>> --reverse-connection --server-port=11111
>> --client-host=olivegarden
>>
>> here node083 is the node where the pvserver was launched...
>>
>> so wasn't sure how to give that info in this command.. or
>> am i doing something wrong.. when you say that start the
>> cient, am i just creating a server/client and connect in
>> manual mode..?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vishwa
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:00 PM, burlen
>> <burlen.loring at gmail.com <mailto:burlen.loring at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:burlen.loring at gmail.com
>> <mailto:burlen.loring at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>> By the way a number of common scenarios, issues and
>> solutions are
>> explained on the wiki
>>
>>
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/Reverse_connection_and_port_forwarding
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
>>
>> Currently you are not launching the server in reverse
>> connection mode. To launch the server in reverse
>> connection
>> mode, you need to give it the arguments -rc (or
>> --reverse-connection) and
>> --client-host=/laptop.hostname.com/
>> <http://laptop.hostname.com/>
>> <http://laptop.hostname.com/>. When given these
>> arguments,
>> the server will immediately try to make a
>> connection to
>> /laptop.hostname.com/ <http://laptop.hostname.com/>
>> <http://laptop.hostname.com/>. Thus,
>> you first need to have your client running and
>> waiting for the
>> server to connect. After getting things set up,
>> you should
>> eventually try to set up your client to
>> automatically start
>> the server with an ssh call and then wait for the
>> server to
>> connect back.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>
>> On 2/27/10 9:11 AM, "Vishwa" <dagarshali at gmail.com
>> <mailto:dagarshali at gmail.com>
>> <mailto:dagarshali at gmail.com
>> <mailto:dagarshali at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I would to visualize the data that is being
>> computed on a
>> hpc by
>> using pvserver and paraview.
>>
>> i have come across a many documents saying how
>> to connect
>> and the
>> one what i thought might be appropriate in my
>> case would to
>> be to
>> run pvserver on the hpc and then connect to it
>> usind
>> server/client
>> reverse connection from my desktop..
>>
>> here is the procedure that i use to connect to
>> the hpc to
>> submit job.
>>
>> i log in to the head node via ssh john at a.b.c.d
>>
>> i then submit my job using the the following
>> script via
>> qsub myscript
>>
>>
>> *#PBS
>>
>> -lmem=2Gb,nodes=1:ppn=4,cput=24:00:00,walltime=24:00:00
>> cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
>>
>> cat ${PBS_NODEFILE} > node1
>> mpirun --machinefile ${PBS_NODEFILE} -np 4
>> pvserver
>> --use-offscreen-rendering -\
>> -server-port=11111 >log1
>> *
>> in the node1 file, i get say node083 (and it is
>> repeated 4
>> times)
>>
>> I am not sure how to connect to this node say by
>> running
>> paraview
>> from my laptop to visualize that.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated..
>>
>> Regards,
>> vishwa
>>
>>
>>
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>> *** Sandia National Laboratories
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