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

[Dave Partyka]

If you're just running mpi you need to enable your mpi service to interact
with the desktop. You can do this by going into the Services manager
(Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services) and going into the
properties of your MPI service (MPICH2 Process Manager, if you're using
MPICH2 from Argonne). On the Log On tab there is a check box "Allow service
to interact with desktop". If you're using HPC server and the HPC Job
Manager there is an environment variable that must be set (which I can dig
up if that is the case).

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:

>  You must be very brave to attempt to try to drive a tiled display with a
> Windows cluster.  In my experience it is quite difficult to work with MPI
> jobs on Windows clusters.  (I hear that the MS HPC platform should be
> better, but there may be other issues with driving graphics cards on them.)
>
> At any rate, this may simply be an issue with your pvserver MPI job not
> having access to the Windows console.  I don’t think the Windows OS is
> generally all that keen on giving a remotely launched application access to
> the console graphics, so the MPI implementation needs to work around that
> somehow.  I don’t know if, for example, MPICH can do that.
>
> -Ken
>
>
>
> On 12/7/09 2:18 AM, "Lars Bilke" <lars.bilke at ufz.de> wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> I´m trying to bump up this question. Did nobody tried ParaView on
> Windows cluster? Or it is not possible at all?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Lars.
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