[Paraview] How to run ParaView on a cluster without X server

[Weiguang Guan]

Hello,

I attempted to run ParaView on a Linux cluster. The cluster has one 
special node, which user can log on and submit jobs. All the other 
nodes are not accessable from outside.

As the cluster doesn't have X on any node I was trying to run ParaView in 
the client/server mode. The problem is that processes running on internal 
nodes couldn't get connected with pvclient running on a desktop outside 
the cluster via port 11111 (other ports, no matter priviledged or not, are 
blocked too). Did anyone encounter this situation? And what's the 
solution?

I tried ssh -R to forward port 11111 of the login node of the cluster 
to that of my desktop, and start pvserver with -ch="login_node", but it 
didn't work.

I would very much appreciate it if you could give me 
solution/suggestion...

Weiguang

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Weiguang Guan, Research Engineer
RHPCS, McMaster University
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