[Paraview] Setup a Tiled-Display on a Windows XP Rendering Cluster

[Berk Geveci]

Which MPI version are you using? MSMPI?

-berk

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Lars Bilke <lars.bilke at ufz.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to get a tiled display to work with ParaView, so here is my setup:
> I have 3 Windows XP machines each equiped with graphic cards. Each
> graphics card is connected to a monitor, so I want to get my ParaView
> output on that three monitors. I start the pvserver on node01 in that way:
> mpiexec -hosts 3 node01 node02 node03 pvserver.exe -tdx=3 -tdy=1
>
> On another Windows XP machine I start the ParaView-Client application
> and I can connect to the server succesfully. On my client I also see the
> rendered image.
>
> But on the three monitors connected to three nodes of the server nothing
> is visible. So how can I drive my tiled display with ParaView?
>
> When searching the net I always find tips for setting up a tiled display
> for Linux only. Is it possible at all to drive a tiled display from
> Windows XP machines??
>
> Thanks in advance!!
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
>
> Lars Bilke
>
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