[Paraview] pvbatch hangs when enabling OSPRay

[Benjamín Hernández]

Sure Dave,

I forget to mention I found no problems when running paraview GUI and
ospray renderer in an interactive session in the cluster.

Regards,



On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:42 PM, David E DeMarle
<dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
> Ben,
>
> I am not able to reproduce this locally. Can you file an issue to help me
> keep track of it on ParaView's new gitlab issue tracker?
>
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
> 21 Corporate Drive
> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
> Phone: 518-881-4909
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Benjamín Hernández <benjha at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've compiled Paraview 5.1 with multithreaded mpi and ospray (with OpenMP)
>> support using the next  modules:
>>
>>   1) gcc/4.8.2            5) xalt/0.5.3           9) szip/2.1
>> 13) boost/1.61.0
>>   2) openmpi/1.8.4_mtm    6) DefApps             10) hdf5/1.8.11
>> 14) libtool/2.4.2
>>   3) PE-gnu/4.8.2-1.8.4   7) qt4/4.8.5           11) mxml/2.9
>> 15) git/1.8.0.2
>>   4) lustredu/1.4         8) python/2.7.9        12) adios/1.9.0
>> 16) cmake/3.5.2
>>
>>
>> and wrote a python script that loads a  vtu file  and renders it as glyph
>> particles.
>>
>> When running pvbatch in one node it works fine, I can visualize and save
>> images. However, when running pvbatch with mpi the script just hangs in the
>> line  that enables OSPRay:
>>
>> oSPRayRendered3DView1.EnableOSPRay = 1
>>
>>
>> I am using the next mpi  commands with no success:
>>
>> mpirun -npernode 16 pvbatch  --mpi --use-offscreen-rendering myscript
>> inputfile.vtu outputimage.png
>>
>> mpirun -np 13 --map-by ppr:1:socket:pe=16 pvbatch  --mpi
>> --use-offscreen-rendering myscript inputfile.vtu outputimage.png
>>
>>
>> I did a simpler script that does the following:
>>
>> #### import the simple module from the paraview
>> from paraview.simple import *
>> #### disable automatic camera reset on 'Show'
>> paraview.simple._DisableFirstRenderCameraReset()
>>
>> # set active view
>> SetActiveView(None)
>> CreateLayout('Layout #1')
>>
>> # Create a new 'Render View'
>> print "Creating render view"
>> renderView1 = CreateView('RenderView')
>> renderView1.ViewSize = [11520, 3240]
>> renderView1.CameraPosition = [0.0, 0.0, 6.69]
>> renderView1.CameraFocalPoint = [0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
>> renderView1.CameraViewUp = [0.0, 1.0, 0.0]
>> renderView1.CameraViewAngle = 30.0
>> renderView1.CameraParallelScale = 1.73
>> renderView1.Background = [0.32, 0.34, 0.43]
>> print "Before Enabling OSPRay"
>> renderView1.EnableOSPRay = 1
>> print "After Enabling OSPRay"
>> renderView1.Shadows = 1
>> renderView1.AmbientSamples = 4
>> renderView1.SamplesPerPixel = 8
>> renderView1.MaxFrames = 1
>> renderView1.LightScale = 1.0
>>
>> print "Done!"
>>
>>
>> #### saving camera placements for all active views
>>
>> # current camera placement for renderView1
>> renderView1.CameraPosition = [148.48492741767512, 106.10239872416838,
>> -28480.984448300518]
>> renderView1.CameraFocalPoint = [137.62326776804608, 95.85538889348155,
>> -28593.41405565134]
>> renderView1.CameraViewUp = [-0.529722197084864, 0.8477698001026378,
>> -0.02609137691878691]
>> renderView1.CameraParallelScale = 19159.165918040744
>>
>>
>>
>> but it  never reaches the print "After Enabling OSPRay" line
>>
>>
>>
>> Any advice will be appreciated,
>>
>>
>>
>> Benjamin Hernandez
>> OLCF
>> Oak Ridge National Laboratory
>>
>>
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