[Paraview] Paraview running under MPI

David Thompson dcthomp at speakeasy.net
Sun Aug 29 14:42:41 EDT 2004


> I tried to run paraview under MPI in client server
> mode on two nodes, each having two processors.I used
> the following command line:
> mpirun -np 2 -machinefile ./mfile4p
> PARAVIEW/bin/paraview -v
> (I am executing this command at master)
>
> It gave me following error, something about not
> binding to the port.
> Error message:"Waiting for client.......cannot bind
> socket to port 11111"
> Can you help me out??
Usually, you get this message when some other program is already using 
that port. Perhaps another instance of ParaView is using the port? If 
not, you might run "netstat -nlp" as root (Linux) to see if some other 
program is occupying the port.

         David



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