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

[Weiguang Guan]

I already built ParaView with mesa and did off-screen rendering so "no X" 
is not an issue in my case. The problem lies on pvclient/pvserver 
connection. And I already made it work by running pvserver only on the 
login node. But I really want to run ParaView in parallel.

Weiguang

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Weiguang Guan, Research Engineer
RHPCS, McMaster University
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On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Randall Hand wrote:

> Well, it wants an X server on each node for the Rendering/Compositing
> functions...
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> If you /really/ want to run it without X, then either compile paraview with
> MangledMesa, or use pvdataserver instead of pvserver.
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> 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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>> RHPCS, McMaster University
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