[Paraview] Parallel Help

[James Galbraith]

Hi Everyone,

I'm pretty new to ParaView, with a little experience with Pre-3.0 
versions.  I'm trying to get some parallel configurations up and running 
under LInux but am having some problems - some probably pretty basic, 
some maybe not.

My environment is a small cluster, 3 dual-dual-core nodes for a total of 
12 available cores, all running Suse 10.2.  I've got ParaView 3.2.1 
built and installed on all three nodes with parallel capabilities enabled.

My first attempt is to get a single client with four servers running on 
a single node.  Rather than describe all the gyrations I have gone 
through, suffice it to say I have been unsuccessful in getting any more 
than one server to run.  It runs OK, but I need to get multiple servers 
running, connecting to the same client.  I've gone through the wiki 
pages and used my pre-3.0 experiences (where I also had some problems), 
but continue to be unsuccessful. 

I've tried using mpirun manually to start the server and used the 
--reverse-connection option, but only a single connection is ever 
established.  I've tried using the connect dialog but again can only get 
a single instance of the server running and connected.  Is there 
something I need to do to the client to get multiple connections?

Can someone show me how to get this thing configured to run multiple 
servers on a single node as well as multiple servers on multiple nodes? 
Maybe an example of a configuration file?  In the end, I'll be running 
some of this in situations where a firewall may well be involved so will 
probably require the use of the --reverse-connection capabilities.  I'd 
greatly appreciate any and all assistance.

Thanks in advance

Jim

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James A. Galbraith
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
Battelle Energy Alliance (BEA)
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