[Paraview] Getting started with paraview

[dpollack at beckman.com]

Hi -

I recently obtained a 42 cpu (850 mhz each) cluster on which I'm trying to 
get paraview running.
I've tried both 2.4 and 3.0.1 binaries (from www.paraview.org) with 
limited success. With 3.0.1, I've gotten the servers running with the help 
of MPI on each child node and paraview running on the head node, but have 
not been able to load any models across the cluster. With 2.4, I was able 
to get pvdataserver and pvrenderserver running on the child nodes, but I 
was unsure what they were doing or how to connect the head node with 
pvclient. When I tried to run pvclient, I got numerous errors with unknown 
causes and no available results on google. I have some questions to help 
me get started:

1. Which version of paraview should I be running? The screenshots on the 
website appear to be an older version than 3.0.1.

2. What distribution of clients, render servers and data servers should I 
have? Is there a sequence of commands or order of execution required to 
get all of the clients and servers connected to one another? Is it the 
same for both versions?

3. Is there any online documentation available for either version of 
paraview? I have the paraview 2.4 guide on order, but how helpful will 
that be for 3.0.1?

4. Are there any online repositories of datasets for paraview? I am mostly 
interested in learning how to load and manipulate the visible man data, 
which I already have access to. Computational fluid dynamics examples 
would also be helpful.


Daniel Pollack
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