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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We do a reverse connect. Thus, the server is connecting to the client. For us, start the client, which will hang waiting for the server. Start all of the servers, reverse connect, passing it the name of the
client machine. The specific commands are in the docs I mentioned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sort of like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In directory lib/paraview-4.1, create a file named default_servers.pvsc. Put in it:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><Servers><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><Server name="Manual-Script" owner="user" resource="csrc://localhost" ><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><ManualStartup/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"></Server><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"></Servers><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">paraview --server=Manual-Script --connect-id=123 &<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">(get your nodes, run pvserver on your nodes) .../pvserver --use-offscrean-rendering –rc –ch=client-machine-name –connect-id=123<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We don’t change ports, but there is a command in ParaView to change ports. Normally, ParaView connects on 11111 by default.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Wadud Miah [mailto:w.miah@qmul.ac.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 19, 2014 10:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Scott, W Alan; paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] pvserver on multiple nodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Hello Scott,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Thanks for the reference. It answers my question that Paraview communicates with rank 0 only. So if a paraview job gets spawned on multiple nodes, and rank zero gets allocated
to cn01 say, so I connect the client to server cn01:11112? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D">Wadud.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b>From:</b> Scott, W Alan [<a href="mailto:wascott@sandia.gov">mailto:wascott@sandia.gov</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 June 2014 17:45<br>
<b>To:</b> Wadud Miah; <a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] pvserver on multiple nodes<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D">I believe you are looking for the section in the ParaView wiki that is called Server Setup. There are multiple pages here, dealing with server setup, client setup, port forwarding, etc.
<a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView#Server_Setup">http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView#Server_Setup</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D">Alan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ParaView [<a href="mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org">mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Wadud Miah<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 19, 2014 8:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:paraview@paraview.org">paraview@paraview.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] pvserver on multiple nodes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span lang="EN-GB">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span lang="EN-GB">How do I configure the client when pvserver runs on multiple nodes via mpirun? e.g. cn01, cn02, cn03 and cn04. There is a flag --multi-servers for paraview but no documentation on it. Any help
will be greatly appreciated. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span lang="EN-GB">Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><span lang="EN-GB">Wadud Miah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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