[Paraview] running paraview in parallel
burlen
burlen.loring at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 16:12:40 EST 2010
Apparently your cluster doesn't have X11 server started. The error
message reports this path because __FILE__ cpp macro is used.
Question: Why is it a problem to install and run ParaView from your home
folder? It should be OK.
Vishwa wrote:
> Thankyou all for responding again..:)
>
> I tried to compile paraview and to only hit a wall after wall as I
> have to install it to my local folder due to not having administrator
> privileges..
>
> so i downloaded the binaries last night and checked that it worked..
>
> Today to my surprise, when i try to open paraview in the hpc
> headnode, where i downloaded the binaries, it gives the following error..
>
> [vishwa at hpc4 ~]$ paraview
> ERROR: In
> /home/kitware/ParaView-3.6/ParaView3/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx,
> line 632
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x143bb10): Cannot create GLX context.
> Aborting.
>
>
> and i dont' have /home/kitware etc...directory...so i dont understand
> what is happening..
>
> I made sure that i included the path of the bin and lib in the newly
> downloaded binary..
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> vishwa
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:38 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com
> <mailto:burlen.loring at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Also be aware that there is a bug in ParaView, where if the server
> startup command doesn't return for some reason, ssh turns into an
> orphan process and will not relinquish the ports it used,
> preventing any further use of those ports.
>
> http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=10283
>
> I did submit a patch to fix it but it has yet to be applied.
>
>
> burlen wrote:
>
> 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>
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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/>
> <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/>
> <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>
> <mailto: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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