[Paraview] pvserver --use-offscreen-rendering

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Have you taken a look at this ParaView Wiki page?

  http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server

-Ken


On 9/30/08 4:44 AM, "Robert Mueller" <mueller at tmfs.mpgfk.tu-dresden.de>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> I want to visualize simple 3d voxel data: creating iso surfaces, slices etc...
> First interactive and later in batch mode.
> As the data sets tend to get quite large (up to 1000x1000x1000 voxels) I
> probably have to use some parallel computation. pvserver/pvbatch seem the
> right tools for this, but the computing nodes don't have graphic cards I can
> use. So I tried compiling pvserver with osmesa and using
> the --use-offscreen-rendering switch. I tried some combinations of paraview
> version/mesa-lib with and without mpi. It's always the same:
> Stand alone paraview can open the (small) test files und display everything I
> want. When using the client/server mode, the server crashes at the point when
> more than a simple outline of the data has to be displayed.
>
> Can somebody give instructions how to get a working pvserver fpr use without
> without graphics hardware (versions, linux distribution, compiler version)?
> Maybe I could build this system in virtual machine, just to have a valid
> starting point.
> I'm using ubuntu, amd64, 7.10
>
> thank you
> Robert Mueller
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