[Paraview] mpirun error

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Jim,

The binaries we create are not compiled with MPI (because there are
many different MPI implementations). If you want to run ParaView with
MPI, you have to compile it yourself.

-berk

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Jim Montine <jmontine at sgi.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I simply untarred and ran the server application (3.4.0) on my x86_64 linux
> cluster.
>
> I did not build it myself.  Is there a particular type of mpi I should be
> using (hpmpi, mpich, etc.)
> for the prebuilt version.
>
> Jim
> ________________________________
> From: Berk Geveci [mailto:berk.geveci at kitware.com]
> Sent: Wed 2/25/2009 1:56 PM
> To: Jim Montine
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] mpirun error
>
> Probably a dumb question but is the server compiled with MPI support?
> What do you see if you create a sphere and then apply process id
> scalars?
>
> -berk
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Jim Montine <jmontine at sgi.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am able to run pvserver on my Linux cluster and paraview (3.4.0) on my
>> PC.  I am
>> able to connect to the server and I can calculate and display a contour
>> (note, the server
>> has no gfx, so there is no remote rendering).
>>
>> Next I tired:
>>
>> mpirun -np pvserver
>>
>> And again I can connect from paraview on the PC and calculate and display
>> the contour.
>>
>> However, when I now exit paraview, pvserver on the cluster displays the
>> following message:
>>
>> Client connection closed.
>> MPI: could not run executable (case #3)
>> MPI: No details available, no log files found
>> Killed
>>
>> It only displays this as it exits.  I guess this means the server is not
>> doing any
>> parallel work - is there a way to tell if the server is working correctly
>> in
>> parallel mode?
>>
>> What might this problem be casued by?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
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