<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I am curious, as I have thought of doing something similar - if the nodes *only* have graphics cards (no monitor), does one still need to use OSMesa?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Dave</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><div class="Section1"><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: maroon; ">The attachment didn’t come through.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: maroon; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: maroon; ">From your email about whether you have graphics hardware on each node of your graphics cluster. If the answer is no, then you should compile with OSMesa.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: maroon; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: maroon; ">-Ken<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" color="maroon" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Courier New'; color: maroon; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div style="border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 1.5pt; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 4pt; "><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center" tabindex="-1"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov@paraview.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b>Cally<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:46 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">paraview@paraview.org</a><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Paraview] Unable to render Paraview 3D view on the cluster</span></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Hi<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "> <o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">I managed to install ParaView on the cluster at my lab, the cluster runs on Linux. And there were no errors, I compiled with MPI, python but I didnt use<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mesa</st1:place></st1:city>, I read on the wiki pages that its not necessary to install mesa if graphics hardware exists. Anyway, my cluster does not have any graphic hardware, but I am using my pc ( run on windows and has graphic hardware) to connect I use putty and xming. I can render the paraview and it appears but what I can't see is .. the sources thing like cone, arrow, 3D text, when I choose and click apply, it loads but nothing appears, paraview does not hang and it works fine, but I can't see anything appearing in the 3D view. I have attached a screenshot together with this mail.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>ParaView mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ParaView@paraview.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">ParaView@paraview.org</a><br><a href="http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview</a><br></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">David E. 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