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

[Randall Hand]

Well, it wants an X server on each node for the Rendering/Compositing
functions...

If you /really/ want to run it without X, then either compile paraview with
MangledMesa, or use pvdataserver instead of pvserver.

On 10/19/06, Weiguang Guan <guanw at rhpcs.mcmaster.ca> wrote:
>
> 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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