[Paraview-developers] ParaView plugins with MPI only on client

[Michael Schlottke]

Hi,

for one of our own ParaView reader plugins we rely on Parallel NetCDF (pnetcdf) to do read in data in parallel, which in turn uses MPI to do the parallel I/O. Principally our reading algorithm works with any number of processes, including one.

At the moment, we always have to start a pvserver instance with MPI (i.e. mpiexec -n NN pvserver), start a normal client, and connect to the pvserver instance if we want to use the plugin - this also works for NN=1. However, when I start the ParaView client, the plugin crashes because MPI was not loaded/started. Thus we always have to go through the extra steps of starting a pvserver if we want to use the plugin.

Thus my question is whether there is a way to either start/load MPI manually from the plugin, or if it is possible to configure the client to automatically load and start the MPI library? Just enabling the Multi-Core option in the ParaView settings does not seem to do the trick.

Regards,

Michael


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Michael Schlottke

SimLab Highly Scalable Fluids & Solids Engineering
Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA-HPC)
RWTH Aachen University
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Germany

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