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

[Weiguang Guan]

Thank you, Qinghuai, I will take a look at virtualgl.

Weiguang

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Qinghuai Gao wrote:

> 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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