[Paraview] mpirun error

[Berk Geveci]

The building instructions are here:

http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install

You can avoid the Qt dependency if you set PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI when
configuring with CMake.

-berk

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Jim Montine <jmontine at sgi.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I downloaded  the source fom the paraview website (paraview-3.4.0.tar.gz).
> What are the smallest number
> of steps I would have to take to build pvserver with MPI?   Does it really
> amount to building everything in the
> source tree?  I was hoping to build jus what I needed and then use the
> prebuilt stuff I already downloaded.
>
>
> Thanks
> ________________________________
> From: Berk Geveci [mailto:berk.geveci at kitware.com]
> Sent: Wed 2/25/2009 5:26 PM
> To: Jim Montine; ParaView Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Paraview] mpirun error
>
> 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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