ParaView/VRPN with MS-MPI

ParaView with MS-MPI and VRPN

• Download and install the following support packages:
  • MS Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition:
    • http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9709949
  • MS-MPI 2008
    • http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14737
  • Git for Windows:
    • http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list?q=full+installer+official+git
    • Default installation options are fine.
  • CMake:
    • http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/cmake-2.8.10.2-win32-x86.exe
    • Install for current user or all users
  • Qt 4.8 for MSVC 2010
    • http://qt-project.org/downloads
  • Python 2.7
    • http://www.python.org/getit/
    • Be sure to pick the 2.7 branch, not the 3.x!
  • Ninja build system.
    • http://martine.github.com/ninja/ for full docs. Short version:
    • Install MSVC++ (link above)
    • Download and install Python 2.7 (link above)
    • Download and install Git for Windows (link above)
    • Open “Git Bash” and run the following to checkout ninja’s source code:
      • mkdir /c/src # (creates C:\src\)
      • cd /c/src
      • git clone git://github.com/martine/ninja.git
    • Open “Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt” from the start menu and run the following:
      • cd \src\ninja
      • \Python27\python.exe bootstrap.py
      • The note about Windows file locking can be safely ignored.
    • Add C:\src\ninja to the system PATH:
      • Open Start menu
      • Right click on “My Computer”, select “Properties”
      • “Advanced System Settings”
      • “Environment Variables”
      • Select “Path” in “System variables”
      • Add “;C:\src\ninja” to the variable value string.
      • Close and reopen any open command prompts for this to take effect.
  • VRPN
    • • In Git Bash, do:
        • cd /c/src
        • git clone git://git.cs.unc.edu/vrpn.git
      • Then in the MSVC command prompt, do
        • cd \src\vrpn
        • cmake-gui .
          • Note: CMake must be launched from the MSVC shell for cmake to detect the compilers correctly.
      • In the CMake GUI:
        • Set source dir to C:/src/vrpn
        • Set binary dir to C:/src/vrpn-bin
        • Click “Configure”, use ninja and default compiler
        • Make to set the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE appropriately
        • “Configure” again if needed, then “Generate”
      • In the MSVC command prompt, do
        • cd \src\vrpn-bin
        • ninja
      • If any errors about python27_d.lib appear, re-run cmake-gui, check the “advanced” option, filter to variables containing “python”, and uncheck all python variables. configure, generate, and build again.
• Checkout ParaView source code
  • Open git bash
  • Enter the following:
    • cd /c/src
    • git clone git://paraview.org/ParaView.git
    • cd ParaView
    • git submodule init
    • git submodule update
• Configure ParaView
  • Run “cmake-gui” from a MSVC 2010 command prompt
  • Click “Browse source”, select “C:/src/ParaView”
  • Click “Browse build”, create and select “C:/src/ParaView-build”
  • Click “Configure”
    • Use the “Ninja” generator
    • Use the default compilers
  • Check the “Advanced” box and set the following options:

PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON	True
PARAVIEW_USE_MPI	True
PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI	True
PARAVIEW_BUILD_PLUGIN_VRPlugin	True

• • Click “Configure” again. The MPI_* and VR options should now appear. Any *MPI* variables that are not listed below can be left blank. Set the following:

MPI_C_INCLUDE_PATH	C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Inc
MPI_CXX_INCLUDE_PATH	C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Inc
MPIEXEC	C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Bin/mpiexec.exe
VTK_MPIRUN_EXE	C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/Bin/mpiexec.exe
MPI_C_LIBRARIES	C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
MPI_CXX_LIBRARIES	C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
MPI_LIBRARY	C:/Program Files/Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2/lib/i386/msmpi.lib
PARAVIEW_USE_VRPN	True

• • Click “Configure” again. The VRPN options are now available. Set the following options:

VRPN_INCLUDE_DIR	C:/src/vrpn-bin/Headers
VRPN_LIBRARY	C:/src/vrpn-bin/vrpn.lib

• • Click “Configure”
  • Click “Generate”
• Build ParaView
  • Open Visual Studio Command Prompt 2010
  • Enter the following:
    • cd \src\ParaView-build
    • ninja
• Running ParaView with MS-MPI
  • At this point, you should be able to run ParaView in parallel using the MS mpiexec executable:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft HPC Pack 2008 R2\Bin\mpiexec.exe" -np 2 C:\src\ParaView-build\bin\pvserver.exe