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

[Qinghuai Gao]

Weiguang:

Can you try our remote rendering solution: run pvclient on the head node
and use VirtualGL to deliver to the desktop.  Please refer to:
    http://www.virtualgl.org/
Let me know if you have any issue with it.

Regards,

Qinghuai

>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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