[Paraview] running paraview in parallel

Vishwa dagarshali at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 16:29:17 EST 2010


I tried to install mesa locally also.. at which point it kept saying it
needs libdrm, and when i tried to install libdrm, it kept complaining that
it coudn't find pthreads-stubs.pc..so i ended up using the system mesa

Regards,
Vishwa

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:24 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's really not info info for me to give you any specific advise. But my
> best guess is that at run time the wrong open gl liibraries are being
> loaded. That will crash PV. You want the mesa libraries from your local mesa
> build to be loaded, you have to prepend its path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> environment var. Also double check in ccmake, that all of the opengl libs
> come from your mesa build.
>
> Vishwa wrote:
>
>>
>> The problem is that it keeps complaining about not having many library
>> files..I tried and installed them..now, when i compiled, it didnt' give an
>> error..but when opened it gave segmentation fault.. i read somewhere online
>> that u need to use unlimit stacksize, which I did and still doesnt work.
>>
>> i had used -mpi opition and also to use mesa ..
>>
>> hit a wall again..
>>
>> Regards,
>> vishwa
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:12 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com <mailto:
>> burlen.loring at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    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>
>>        <mailto: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>>
>>                   <mailto: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>>
>>                   <mailto: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/>
>>                          <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/>
>>                   <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>>
>>                          <mailto: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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