[Paraview] Unable to render Paraview 3D view on the cluster

[David Farrell]

I am curious, as I have thought of doing something similar - if the  
nodes *only* have graphics cards (no monitor), does one still need to  
use OSMesa?

Dave


On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Moreland, Kenneth wrote:

> The attachment didn’t come through.
>
> From your email about whether you have graphics hardware on each  
> node of your graphics cluster.  If the answer is no, then you should  
> compile with OSMesa.
>
> -Ken
>
> From: paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces+kmorel=sandia.gov at paraview.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Cally
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:46 AM
> To: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: [Paraview] Unable to render Paraview 3D view on the cluster
>
> Hi
>
> I managed to install ParaView on the cluster at my lab, the cluster  
> runs on Linux. And there were no errors, I compiled with MPI, python  
> but I didnt use Mesa, I read on the wiki pages that its not  
> necessary to install mesa if graphics hardware exists. Anyway, my  
> cluster does not have any graphic hardware, but I am using my pc  
> ( run on windows and has graphic hardware) to connect I use putty  
> and xming. I can render the paraview and it appears but what I can't  
> see is .. the sources thing like cone, arrow, 3D text, when I choose  
> and click apply, it loads but nothing appears, paraview does not  
> hang and it works fine, but I can't see anything appearing in the 3D  
> view. I have attached a screenshot together with this mail.
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David E. Farrell
Graduate Student
Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
email: d-farrell2 at northwestern.edu


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