FW: [Paraview] building paraview3 beta with openmpi?

Berk Geveci berk.geveci at kitware.com
Mon May 7 16:43:10 EDT 2007


Yup. You should either use offscreen rendering or disable compositing
(from Preferences, Server, I think).

On 5/7/07, W. Bryan Smith <bryan at ncmir.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> ok, got this to work, now i see 4 pvserver-real processes,
> and one paraview-real process.  when i use the default
> settings for sphere and then process id scalars, i see the
> sphere with 4 colors, as expected.
>
>  however, when i try to increase the theta resolution, i am
> no longer able to see the sphere, and in its place, i see a
> little portion of the paraview window (i.e. rather than the
> sphere in the view window, i see a small part of the left-
> hand frame of the paraview window).  is this because i
> have to use offscreen rendering when running paraview3
> in parallel mode on a single, multi-cpu machine?  or is
> there something else i have mucked up here?
>
> thanks,
>
> bryan
>
> On 5/7/07, Berk Geveci <berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> > Command line (i.e. during configuration).
> >
> > -berk
> >
> > On 5/7/07, W. Bryan Smith <bryan at ncmir.ucsd.edu > wrote:
> > > cool, thanks...
> > > do i set that in the cmake command line, or in the
> > > CMakeLists.txt file?
> > >
> > > bryan
> > >
> > >
> > > On 5/7/07, Berk Geveci < berk.geveci at kitware.com > wrote:
> > > > Ah, I found the problem. You need to set PARAVIEW_USE_MPI instead of
> > > > VTK_USE_MPI.
> > > >
> > > > -berk
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 5/7/07, W. Bryan Smith < bryan at ncmir.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> > > > > "Berk Geveci" < berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > >It almost looks like pvserver is not compiled with MPI and mpiexec
> is
> > > > > >starting 4 completely independent pvservers. Then the client is
> > > > > >probably connecting to just one of those. What do you see when look
> at
> > > > > >processes after mpiexec? Are there 4 pvserver processes?
> > > > >
> > > > >  there is only 1 pvserver process when i check with top.
> > > > > mpiexec is also running, so that part seems to have
> > > > > worked, but only one pvserver is showing up.
> > > > >
> > > > > >Also, what happens if you create a sphere and apply Process Id
> Scalars?
> > > > > >Do you see 4 pieces or just 1?
> > > > >
> > > > > i see one blue sphere.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks for the leads, hope this helps figure things out.
> > > > >
> > > > > bryan
> > > > >
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