[Paraview] Remote render / composite settings with MPI pvserver

[Berk Geveci]

Sean,

What do you mean by without ICE-T? I don't think you can really turn
off ICE-T anymore. It should always be there as long as you turn on
MPI. Did you have do any trickery to turn it off?

-berk


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Sean Ziegeler
<seanzig at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to do remote rendering with client-server, where the server is
> running in parallel on AIX.  The problem is that it only renders the block
> from the first task, as if the compositing is not happening.  So, I'm trying
> to figure out if it's an AIX-related issue or I'm just doing something dumb
> with the build or one of the settings.  So, here's all the relevant info I
> can think of:
>
>  Versions: 3.2.1 and CVS (about 1 week old)
>  Build: AIX using VisualAge compiler, cross-compiled using mpCC, 64-bit
>  With: Python 2.5.1, Mesa 7.0.2 w/OSMesa
>  ICE-T: Without
>  Server:
>         Command: mpirun.lsf pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering
>            also tried --disable-compositing  (grasping at straws here)
>         LSF processors: 8
>         Cleared the DISPLAY env var
>  Client:
>         Remote Render Threshold: 0 (to force remote rendering)
>         Disable Ordered Compositing: Tried Off & On
>         Everything else at defaults as well
>
>  It happens with any source or data sets, and with any of the filters I've
> tried.  If I turn off Remote Rendering (i.e., force client rendering) things
> look fine.
>
>  Then I thought maybe I should try building ICE-T.  I did that with 3.2.1
> and now I just get a black screen, except for the little axis widget.  I
> haven't tried with ICE-T and CVS yet.  After that, I'm out of permutations.
>
>  Any ideas?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Sean
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