[Paraview] running paraview in parallel

[burlen]

By the way a number of common scenarios, issues and solutions are 
explained on the wiki

http://paraview.org/Wiki/Reverse_connection_and_port_forwarding

Hope this helps

Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> Currently you are not launching the server in reverse connection mode. 
>  To launch the server in reverse connection mode, you need to give it 
> the arguments -rc (or --reverse-connection) and 
> --client-host=/laptop.hostname.com/.  When given these arguments, the 
> server will immediately try to make a connection to 
> /laptop.hostname.com/.  Thus, you first need to have your client 
> running and waiting for the server to connect.  After getting things 
> set up, you should eventually try to set up your client to 
> automatically start the server with an ssh call and then wait for the 
> server to connect back.
>
> -Ken
>
>
> On 2/27/10 9:11 AM, "Vishwa" <dagarshali at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>     I would to visualize the data that is being computed on a hpc by
>     using pvserver and paraview.
>
>     i have come across a many documents saying how to connect and the
>     one what i thought might be appropriate in my case would to be to
>     run pvserver on the hpc and then connect to it usind server/client
>     reverse connection from my desktop..
>
>     here is the procedure that i use to connect to the hpc to submit job.
>
>     i log in to the head node via ssh john at a.b.c.d
>
>     i then submit my job using the the following script via qsub myscript
>
>
>     *#PBS
>     -lmem=2Gb,nodes=1:ppn=4,cput=24:00:00,walltime=24:00:00                   
>
>
>     cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
>
>     cat ${PBS_NODEFILE} > node1
>     mpirun --machinefile ${PBS_NODEFILE} -np 4 pvserver
>     --use-offscreen-rendering -\
>     -server-port=11111 >log1
>     *
>     in the node1 file, i get say node083 (and it is repeated 4 times)
>
>     I am not sure how to connect to this node say by running paraview
>     from my laptop to visualize that.
>
>     Any help would be greatly appreciated..
>
>     Regards,
>     vishwa
>
>
>
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