[Paraview] Multiple windows when running parallel PV 3.2.1

[Manuel Flores]

Berk Geveci wrote:
> Take a look at this page: http://paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server
>
> -berk
>
>
> On 1/4/08, Manuel Flores <manuel.flores at cea.fr> wrote:
>   
>> Hello !!!
>>
>> I'am trying to run ParaView 3.2.1 generated with MPI support on a
>> BULL/Itanium cluster (900 nodes, 8 cores/node). In our configuration it
>> is mandatory to use LSF/SLURM batch system. My test case is composed of
>> 16 VTU files and 1 PVTU master file. It works fine when I use only the
>> Paraview client, but for some bigger cases I will need to perform a real
>> parallel post-treatment (128 processors or more).
>>
>> The server is launched as well in my LSF submission file :
>>
>> srun -n 16 ./pvserver
>>
>> The LSF submission file  "pvserver.lsf" is submitted as well :
>>
>> bsub < pvserver.lsf
>>
>> The hosts (or nodes) used by the server are host225 and host226.
>>
>> Then, I run the client and I connect it to the  node where is running
>> the MPI root process (process 0 is on host225). To do that I use the
>> File/Connect menu of the client where I have defined the server with the
>> manual startup mode. The connection is OK but when I click on button
>> "Apply", after master file opening, 16 windows appear in addition of the
>> main client window. Each of the 16 windows displays its associated
>> sub-domain.
>>
>> Can someone tell me how to avoid the opening of these 16 windows and how
>> to make paraview display all domains in the client main window ?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>> Manuel.
>>
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>   
Hi Berk,

Many thanks for your hints.
After linking ParaView with OSMESA and using the option
"--use-offscreen-rendering" to start the server it works fine.
Only the client main window appears, now, and all the subdomains
are drawn in this window.

Regards.

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