[Paraview] Paraview client-Server

[Andy Cedilnik]

Hello,

I still think you can do it without NAT. Make sure you have first node 
running on the node that has access to the network.

I mean this worked when I was there...

       Andy

Randall Hand wrote:
> This, this is the tile cluster (plasma).
>
> We brought it up with our admins onsite, and they dont' think that 
> setting up NAT would be any big problem, so they're looking into it 
> now.  What we want to do is use the IceTDesktop render mode to 
> parallel process across our 12 nodes with the display piped to a 
> client (probably windows) that's not part of the cluster.  It was my 
> understanding (and experience) that in this setup (mpirun -np 12 
> pvserver -rc) that each pvserver process will want an independent 
> connection to the Client, which would require full network 
> connectivity if it's any host other than the head node.
>
> AM I mistaken?
>
> On 8/10/06, *Andy Cedilnik* <andy.cedilnik at kitware.com 
> <mailto:andy.cedilnik at kitware.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     Actually, as far as I remember there is no need for connectivity from
>     satellite nodes. I am pretty sure Randal's setup does not use NAT, so
>     there is no way his satellite nodes can access Internet. Randal,
>     this is
>     the tile cluster?
>
>     But, again, I see no reason for satellite nodes to access client. They
>     will try to access render server nodes if you do render/data server
>     separation.
>
>               Andy
>
>     Wylie, Brian wrote:
>     > Sandia uses reverse connect on all of our cluster deployments.
>     >
>     > Even though you can't 'see' the cluster nodes from outside you can
>     > often 'see' the outside from a cluster node.
>     >
>     > If the cluster node cannot ping an external ip, than perhaps
>     install
>     > NAT on the cluster?  (I'm a bit out of my area here.... but that's
>     > what our administrators have done if there was an issue).
>     >
>     > If you want I can forward your email to our cluster folks....
>     >
>     >   Brian Wylie - Org 1424
>     >   Sandia National Laboratories
>     >   MS 0822 - Building 880/A1-J
>     >   (505)844-2238 FAX(505)845-0833
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >    
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>     >     Behalf Of *Randall Hand
>     >     *Sent:* Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:46 PM
>     >     *To:* Paraview List
>     >     *Subject:* [Paraview] Paraview client-Server
>     >
>     >     On our cluster, only the head node has true internet
>     >     connectivity.  The remaining cluster nodes are on an internal
>     >     network with no visibility except to each other & the head node.
>     >
>     >     In this configuration, is there any way to run Paraview in
>     >     Parallel-server mode to a client anywhere other than the head
>     >     node?  I would presume that there would need to be some kind of
>     >     Relay on the head node to make this happen.
>     >
>     >     This came up a few months ago with kitware, but I'm kinda
>     curious
>     >     if anyone else out there has a different solution (/poke Bryan,
>     >     Kenneth, *@doe :) ).
>     >
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>     >     Randall Hand
>     >     Visualization Scientist
>     >     ERDC MSRC-ITL
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