[Paraview] Paraview on SGI Altix 4000

[Moreland, Kenneth]

It sounds like it could be a rendering problem.  Perhaps the offscreen
rendering is misbehaving.  What happens when you run without the
--use-offscreen-rendering flag?

-Ken


On 9/22/08 11:28 AM, "Biao She" <shebiao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi folks.
> Has anyone ever installed paraview on SGI Altix 4000? If I compiled
> paraview with "PARAVIEW_USE_MPI" option setting to ON, the paraview
> didn't work properly. For example, I first started the MPI version
> pvserver on the supercomputer by issuing "DISPLAY=:0 mpirun -np 4
> ./pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering",  then I launched paraview
> locally and connected it to the pvserver on the supercomputer.
> Normally, at the center of paraview display area, there should have
> three reference lines of a coordinate system. However, my paraview
> just displayed a black square.
> I have also tried the non-MPI version and the precompiled version of
> Paraview. They worked fine. I don't know if the problem is MPI
> implementation problem. I have heard that SGI's MPI implementation is
> kind of different. However, other programs, such as glxgears, worked
> fine by using the SGI implementation. Also, if I use the x forwarding
> to start the MPI version of pvserver, the rendering result is also
> correct. So, I am not quite convinced that the problem is MPI problem
> and I am quiet confused.
> I will highly appreciate any of your comments.
> Thanks!
>
> Aaron
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