[Paraview] how to build a parallel server for paraview?

[Yantao Zhang]

I later recognized that it will be a tough job to build a parallel server.
I'm trying to do this. Thank you very much and for your information.

2011/3/18 David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com>

> Setting up a cluster is somewhat outside the scope of the paraview list.
>
> However, the parallel chapter in the new paraview book begins with
> references that should help you.
> See: http://paraview.org/Wiki/Users_Guide_Client-Server_Visualization
>
> There are two system admin tasks that you want to tackle.
> 1) Set up a shared filesystem such as SMB, nfs, pvfs etc.
> 2) Configure the MPI installation on each machine to know about and be
> authorized to connect to and run code on the rest of the machines. For both
> tasks you need to consult the documentation that comes with the related
> system software or let google do it.
>
> Instead of testing the installation by running pvserver, I recommend you
> start with a hello world program and once that is working try pvserver.
>
> Since this is a windows cluster you may want to try Microsoft Windows HPC
> server. It has fairly nice job scheduling (pbs like) features beyond what
> something like stock MPICH offers and has decent support for making use of
> hardware accelerated rendering. A demo of using ParaView on such a cluster
> is given in:
>
> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/The+HPC+Show/Open-source-HPC-code-Episode-22-Running-Paraview-on-Windows-HPC-Server
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
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>
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Yantao Zhang <pkuzhangyt at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I recently met a problem when I try to use the server/client mode.
>>
>> In my lab, several PCs are connected using Ethernet.
>> Windows is running on each of them.
>> I want to use them as post-processing server.
>>
>> I run
>>   "mpiexec -np -hosts host1 host2 .... pvserver.exe"
>> Each host is a PC machine.
>>
>> But I found I can connect to only one PC.
>> When I connect to it, I can only see its local disk.
>> How can I make use of all these PCs?
>> How to build a parallel server for paraview?
>>
>> Thanks very much.
>> ,
>> roos.
>>
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Yours Sincerely,
Yantao Zhang
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