[Paraview] X windows in client/server mode

[Alain SENOT]

Hi all,

I'm working on a little cluster (<10 nodes) with hardware capacities.

This is an old subject but I would like to know how to set up server nodes 
so that they can open X windows. Does it allow hardware rendering on the 
server ? (if compiled with openGL)

Is it better to use client/data server/render server mode ? In this last 
mode, is it possible to run the data server and render server on the same 
node ?

Thanks,

Alain Senot
EDF Research


> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br at paraview.org
> [mailto:paraview-bounces+rnelias=nacad.ufrj.br at paraview.org] 
> Em nome de
> Wylie, Brian
> Enviada em: terça-feira, 16 de maio de 2006 13:39
> Para: Jack Gundrum; Christoph Moder
> Cc: ParaView at paraview.org
> Assunto: RE: [Paraview] client/server display problem
> 
> All,
> 
> I haven't followed the entire thread, but just wanted to 
> mention that in
> general 'forwarding X' when running ParaView client/server is 
> a very bad
> idea (performance 20x slower and bypassing all the image 
> delivery work in
> ParaView).
> 
> When running in client/server folks should do one of the following two
> things:
> 1) Set up their server nodes so that they can open X windows 
> (Sandia has
> done this on like 10 different clusters, it's not that hard, 
> if you need
> instructions please email me).
> 2) Compile the server with Mesa (note: the client should 
> never be compiled
> with Mesa)
> 
>   Brian Wylie - Org 9227
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