[Paraview] Is it possible to run the paraview in C/S mode on different OS platform?

[Wylie, Brian]

Nancy,

Sure we do it all the time. There are issues sometimes with how the
connection works. Lots of time when you run on a linux server you do a
'qsub' or equivalent and you don't know which nodes you will actually
get and even when you know which nodes you will get, your client machine
will not be able to connect 'into' that particular node. 

BUT, this is all solved by doing -rc (reverse connect) on both the
server and client. So you launch the client on windows with -rc (you can
make a shortcut to pvclient and add the -rc arg in the 'properties' of
the shortcut).
After the client is running you launch the server with -rc and that
client machine name as -ch arg.

Regarding the server not having graphics cards that is also just fine.
Any machine these days will run openGL even if they don't have a
graphics card in them. The one wrinkle is that paraview server
(pvserver) will normally open up an X window to do the parallel
rendering. If your cluster is setup to allow that your done. If not you
will need to compile paraview with mesa and then the X window thing is
not an issue.

We do not ever use paraview as a data server. We always use just the
vanilla (pvclient-pvserver) and the servers do both data handling and
rendering (even on machines with mesa) and then stream images to the
client desktop. We find this model works really well. I know other folks
that use data servers and renders servers but they are just weird and
should receive some sort of medical attention. (Of course I'm being
silly, but I do have strong opinions about why that mode of operation is
not a good idea for most use cases).

Anyway, if you have any questions just let me know.

Best regards, 

Brian Wylie - Org 9227
Sandia National Laboratories
MS 0822 - Building 880/A1-J
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
> [mailto:paraview-bounces+bnwylie=sandia.gov at paraview.org] On 
> Behalf Of Nancy
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:32 PM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Paraview] Is it possible to run the paraview in C/S 
> mode on different OS platform?
> 
> Hi, all,
>     Now we have a server machine with multiple processors 
> that use Linux OS, and we want to use a PC with Windows XP as 
> the client. Is it possible to run the paraview in C/S mode on 
> different OS platform?
>     By the way, if the server machine dose not have graphic 
> card and display device, can the Render server and Data 
> server of Paraview run on this machine?
>     Thanks a lot!
> 
> Best,
> Nancy
>