[Paraview] running paraview in parallel

[burlen]

Your command isn't quite right, specifically how you are trying to 
specify the compute node.

Take a look at the section here,
http://paraview.org/Wiki/Reverse_connection_and_port_forwarding#Reverse_Connection_Over_an_ssh_Tunnel

It's a little closer to your situation.

Vishwa wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for the reply..I did look at the wiki and tried the following..
>
> I set up a server/client reverse connection and trired to connect.. 
> but i coudn't.. this was the command that i gave for the server.. 
> olivegarden is the hostname of my laptop.
>
> ssh -i /home/dagarshali/.ssh/id_rsa vishwa at hpc4.iastate.edu 
> <mailto:vishwa at hpc4.iastate.edu> node083 pvserver --reverse-connection 
> --server-port=11111 --client-host=olivegarden
>
> here node083 is the node where the pvserver was launched...
>
> so wasn't sure how to give that info in this command.. or am i doing 
> something wrong.. when you say that start the cient, am i just 
> creating a server/client and connect in manual mode..?
>
> Regards,
> Vishwa
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 1:00 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com 
> <mailto:burlen.loring at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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/
>         <http://laptop.hostname.com/>.  When given these arguments,
>         the server will immediately try to make a connection to
>         /laptop.hostname.com/ <http://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
>         <mailto: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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